On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:52 -0400, Eben King wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Bill Shaw wrote:
>
> > On 10/27/05, Pete Theisen <petet@acun.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am dumping my hosting service and out goes my seldom-used dial-up
> > > account with it. I may occasionally need dial-up. Has anyone any
> > > experience with People PC?
> > >
> > > <http://www.peoplepc.com/opt/s/index.html>
> >
> > I believe you have to use their dialer to connect and it's Windows only. If
> > you're using cable/dsl at home I believe both companies provide limited dial
> > up service as part of the package though.
>
> I know Road Runner does, but I haven't figured out the sequence to log in
> from Linux yet. It dials up fine, but then I'm at some prompt with no clue
> how to proceed.
>
Eben,
When we used to have AT&T dial-up, I basically had the same thing
happen. My username and password were not the key to get in. My wife
called AT&T and they gave us a string of digits as the username
(probably an acct #) and a jumbled password to use with kppp. After
that I opened up a browser and away I went. I also have RR and am
interested in this as when the power goes out during a storm, I could
still get online with the laptop and a modem for weather info. Or for
when out of town. Where did you find the dialer ph #s?? Does RR offer
it for free or pay? And last but not least, I wonder if a quick call
to a cust serv rep might get you some special login info.....
Mike Branda Jr.
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