Bernie, I am in total agreement with you that it can't be done without an
ISP. I have been told by two different people that they got online without an
ISP and I didn't believe them so I wrote to this list to see if there was a
way one can do this.
In the olden days we used to go to, darn I forget what they were called,
newsgroups or something like that, and they would take our calls and allow us
to
look up information about whatever that newsgroup was for, but even then you
couldn't surf the net even if you were connected with another entity.
Jerry.
> I keep hearing that people can get on the internet and surf using their
> dialup line at home without the need of an ISP and I am just wondering how
this
> is done.
I haven't heard that and don't believe it. You need *something* on the
other side of the phone call you make to answer the phone and provide a
modem for your modem to talk to. Generally, the entity that "answers the
phone" is an ISP. There's no way I know of, or have heard of, to "direct
connect" from a dialup line.
Technically, it can work, of course: if you have a friend with a cable
setup or some such who is willing to set up an 'answering' modem, you can
dial into there and surf-out over his connection, but short of something
like that there's no way I know of to get around having to have an ISP
provide the "other side" of your dialin.
If you can provide a pointer or something to some place where you see
that kind of thing alluded to, I can try to see if I can figure out what
they're referring to...
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