Ubuntu Dial up settings

Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings.co.za
Thu May 4 09:44:12 UTC 2006


On Thursday 04 May 2006 06:59, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> I'm going to have to agree with towsonu2003 on this, Alan.  Here in
> China it's almost impossible to get modems anymore.  If you're
> connected to the Internet at all at home you're probably connected
> broadband. When I first came here five years ago some people still
> connected by modem.  But now I don't know anybody who uses a modem.
>  It's all broadband -- and pretty damned fast broadband too.  With
> no bandwidth restrictions.

I can't speak for the US or China, but here is good 'ole sunny South 
Africa you can pick up modems fairly easily. I use an external 56k 
Duxbury and as far as I know they are still manufactured. Half the 
country here is on broadband, the other half still stuck with dialup 
so our circumstances are very different from yours it seems.

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Alan McKinnon
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