Hello Russell,
Thanks for your response.
My comments are inline below.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Reiter" <[email protected]>
To: "GTALUG Talk" <[email protected]>; "D. Hugh Redelmeier"
<[email protected]>
Cc: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP
PC;
On Jul 26, 2016 9:27 PM, "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
| From: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk" <[email protected]>
| I don't really have a few weeks to spare. I need to get the Linux
PC up
| and running, so I can get back to the rest of my life.
<snip>
Just to amplify what Len said:
- external serial modems are very standard and well-supported
I believe as a general rule of thumb any Hayes compatable modem will
work
with Linux. I've not tested this tho.
I'll keep this in mind.
<snip>
I tinkered with GSM tethering. I did an install with the phone
tethered and
linux found the phones modem and created the proper serial nodes at
the
time. On reboot, I had to fool around with usb modeswitching from
storage
to modem using a udev rule.
My head is spinning.
Given that I'm still using dial-up on my current Windows XP system, no
one will be surprised to learn that I carry no mobile and hope to make
it all the way to my conference with the "Grim Reaper" and never, ever
walk around with some oligarchic comms carrier knowing where I am.
- avoid "WinModems". Those require proprietary drivers. Some have
<snip the middle>
If you don't have a broadband internet connection, all sorts of
things
that I don't notice might become problems. Like updates.
I updated the unit I referred to above using the phones modem for
about a
year. Even when I went over my Data plan (6gb high speed the rest
throttled to 30kbs) I had no problems. I could even watch YouTube as
long
as I used low res and preloaded for a couple of minutes.
Interesting. And encouraging. Maybe I can hold out a while longer, and
keep using dial-up with the new Linux PC, postponing the extra expense
of DSL versus dial-up. I pay today $15 / mo. (+taxes) for dial-up
access. My ISP (Start.ca) wants $40 / mo. (plus taxes) for 5 Mbs DSL
service.
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Good luck and have fun.
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