Ross Drummond wrote:
On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:49, Chad wrote:this is sort of getting back on topic for linux. I'm stuck out at oxford & use freenet with a dial up connection. I'd like to stay connected but they drop me off after a few hours online, is there a way (use a script?) of redialing automatically once a connection is dropped?
For linux if you download the ocasional iso and the updates 1GB isn't really enough. 5GB is alright but the best option at the moment is probably what orcon, maxnet and other similar ISP's are offering at the moment.
256K/dl 128K/up Unlimited $49.95 a month. Has a conection fee of ~$100 and you need to buy your own router or ADSL modem. Still it's only $10 more a month for unlimited data. So no worrying if your've gone over and you'll never have to pay any more than that.
256K works out to about 8hours per 700MB ISO which isn't to bad.
Chad
Download restrictions, ha!
Dial up is the answer. No limits on download, just patience required. It will be a cold day in hell before I knuckle under to the monopoly abuse by telecom of the asdl sector.
Big ISO to download? Just leave your modem running all night with wget and go off line when you get up. It may take several nights to get the ISO, but who rings in the middle of the night.
If everyone on my ancient coal fired exchange did the same thing maybe it would blow up and we could get a decent replacement
Theresa will have to get some other sucker to contribute to her large salary.
Cheers Ross Drummond
a novice extremely happily using suse 9.1 with no problems otherwise.
cheers...howard
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