Cheap Linux-Friendly Dialup in Phoenix?

[KE7FEG]

I had emr.net for awhile. There was, but don't know
now, a linux guru there. Anyhow, the old asu freenet
had to move from a server at asu and moved there for
hosting. 

http://emr.net/pricing.php  

$9.95/mo and no limit if I remember correctly. 


I used knoppix and had to setup each bootup! It
worked. (one machine I used had the 'saved config'
setup) I got real good at navigating thru the config
of ppp setup. Not anymore tho, slept twice since then.

IF push comes to shove money wise, and email only will
do it for them, I recommend aztec as it is FREE to
local arizona residents. I still have my mid-1994
email account there!

http://aztecfreenet.org/

--- Mike Schwartz <mike.l.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/11/06, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com> wrote:
> >
> > vodhner at cox.net wrote:
> > > Well, Cox has bumped their low-end access from
> about $24 to more like
> > $30 monthly, blowing my friend's disability-check
> budget.
> > >
> > > He mentioned NetZero but I think they require a
> special Windows client
> > -- and I know that such clients claim to boost
> effective connection speed
> > with added compression and caching features.
> > >
> > > So if I'm trying to keep him running on Linux,
> what's his best bet?  I'd
> > like to keep his bill no higher than about $20 for
> connect +
> > mailbox.  Performance features would be nice, but
> keeping him off Windows --
> > priceless!
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any advice.  See P.S.
> below regarding his setup.
> > >
> > > Vic
> > >
> > > P.S. -- I've dual-booted his XP doorstop with
> Feather Linux.  I was
> > interested to see that XP Pro works OK on a
> Pentium II with 130 MB of memory
> > (taking 2:50 to boot up) but Ubuntu, Linspire and
> a bunch of others did not
> > manage to come up effectively.  I was real happy
> with Feather Linux, a Slax
> > derivitive:  came up clean, detected everything,
> and runs real snappy.
> > >
> ---------------------------------------------------
> > > PLUG-discuss [...]
> >
> > FastQ has dialup that works with linux (one of my
> friends uses it on
> > linux).
> > Toll Free: 1.877.983.2787
> > http://www.fastq.com/resdialup.php
> >
> >
> > --
> > JD Austin
> > Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC
> > email: jd at twingeckos.com
> > http://www.twingeckos.com
> > phone/fax: 480.288.8195
> >
> >
> ---------------------------------------------------
> > PLUG-discuss [...]
> >
> 
> > keep his bill no higher than about $20 for connect
> + mailbox
> 
> Other previous replies give example[s] of
> a cheap ISP so I guess that takes care of the
> "connect"
> (I still use NetZero "Platinum" dialup, 9.95/mo.) ;
> My 0.02:
> For "mailbox", I use, and recommend, either
> yahoo.com or gmail.
> I used to use Yahoo [more], and it was fine
> until I started to subscribe to this list
> (which is now responsible for  more than half of
>  all of my incoming e-mail).
> Then, I switched to gmail because it has a
> "threaded" feature (like a news reader)
> where each thread is called a "conversation", - -
> as long as you don't change the subject.
> I prefer that, since a huge "conversation" now
> only takes up 1 slot in my IN box.
> With yahoo or gmail, the "mailbox" part
> would be free [as in free beer] - right?
> -- 
> Mike Schwartz
> Glendale  AZ
> schwartz at acm.org
> Mike.L.Schwartz at gmail.com
> >
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