PPP providors

[Mike Hauber]

On Monday 21 February 2005 04:28 pm, Peter C. Lai wrote:
> I need a temporary 56K providor until I get broadband installed
> at a new location. Do any of the commercially advertised ones
> (netscape, netzero, peoplepc, earthlink) support using regular
> PPP, or am I forced to use their dialer in win32? This is
> obviously important in determining if such a providor can be
> used in freebsd.
> TIA
> pete

A few months ago, I had my Father set up on Earthlink.  I've heard 
tell (rumor probably) that they plan on switching to something 
like a software setup like aol.  I've tried netzero and peoplepc, 
and couldn't get anywhere with them.  I don't know about 
netscape.  Your best bet _may_ be to go through a local dialup 
service (if you can find one, these days).

Oh yeah...  I don't know if AT&T is an option where you are, but 
they are straight forward and don't require any junk software for 
connection.

HTH

Mike