Ubuntu Dial up settings

[Florian Diesch]

"Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-04-05 at 04:22 +0100, towsonu2003 wrote:
>
>     Alan McKinnon Wrote:
>     > But modems are fairly reliable things, at least we can usually still
>     > pick one up second hand. And it's something you only do once per
>     > given system
>
>
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>     may be in the US. Not abroad... They are either very hard to find, or
>     very expensive abroad.
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> 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

Here in Germany it shouldn't be that hard to get a used external modem
for < 10 EUR (I don't know if you can get new ones).

According to some statistics provided by the government in 2004 only
about 30% of the German internet users were using a broadband connection.
Now it may be around 50% I guess. Still if you do only email and some
WWW using a modem is much cheaper.



   Florian
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