P.S. If you make little use of the internet - dealing with e-mail mostly off-line and only browsing occasionally, PAYG can be very cheap, e.g. �5-�8 per quarter (excluding BT line rental of course). PAYG gets very expensive if you spend a lot of time surfing or downloading stuff - then take Anne's advice and keep PAYG only as a back-up. One-Tel does an unlimited internet access package for �12.99 per month and works quite well. I'm pretty sure a number of other ISPs offer something similar.
Cheers, Doug On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 22:54, Douglas B. wrote: > Anne, Margot, > > Humble apologies! - yes, I forgot to say the ISPs I was referring to > were (mostly) 'pay-as-you-go'.... > > I haven't signed up with a new ISP for some time. When I was doing that > fairly frequently, extracting any setting up details from them was like > getting blood from a stone - hence the Winblows work-around. It's nice > they're becoming more Linux-friendly. > > I haven't had any problem so far with Tiscali P-A-Y-G time-outs - > managed to download great masses of Mandrake Updates, lasting hours. > (This was pre-SmartSurf) > > Hope you get your problems sorted soon, Margot > > cheers, > Doug > > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 19:15, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 31 Jan 2003 7:02 pm, Douglas B. wrote: > > > Margot, > > > > > > Most of the UK dial-up ISPs can be set up for Linux without too much > > > difficulty - I would choose the one that offers the best deal, ignoring > > > > > In your position I would consider using Tiscali on an Anytime contract, which > > IIRC is �15/month, and then one of the pay as you go isps for a fall-back > > account, just for those very rare occasions when something goes wrong. > > Anytime is just that no other cost for time or phone calls, but they tend to > > cut you off after about 2 hours, so long downloads are very difficult. > > > > As far as setting up goes, you can sign up from any browser you have, on any > > os, just from their website. When you've signed up and got your account > > initiated they send you a welcome letter and another with all the details you > > need to set up access from any browser. It is absolutely complete. HTH > > > > Anne -- Douglas B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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