cable broadband and dialup modem

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Tue Mar 3 03:26:32 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Ray Parrish wrote:

> Robert Holtzman wrote:

             ............snip............

>> I'm trying to figure out a way to use *spit* Cox broadband for browsing
>> and downloading linux distros and the dialup ISP for mail and news.
>>
> Just curious here...Why? That will make your mail and news pretty slow.
> I still have the email address I used when I was on dial-up, as I pay
> the old isp a small fee for continuing to use it, but I download it
> through my new DSL connection, which is much faster.

I can connect to my dialup ISP's news server with my cable but haven't 
had much luck with there mail servers. Think I'll work on that some 
more.

Thanks.

-- 
Bob Holtzman




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