On Apr 3, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Ed Howland wrote: > I don't recommend using the city's ISP for T/S or triage of modems.
Agreed. Which is a bummer since that's the number/user/password combo that we all can get. > How many phone lines are there at BW? Can you call out and back in > the other line? Just two: one for the computer side and one for the bike side. > The best bet would be to set up a reliable server+modem with the > pppd+mgetty server. That way you can control the environment [1] to > test > the modems with. If we tie up both phone lines in the shop, then people won't be able to call in, which is a bad thing. Plus we would have to setup and maintain the server. > Or use a reliable ISP as Robert mentions. That would probably be the best option. Karl gave me his username/ password for SBC. I'm going to try to find out Charter's dial-up numbers (anyone know?) Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
