[Sussex] Dial-up twice

[Mike Diack]

Sorry to lengthen this thread and simultaneously go off topic....

:)

I'm thinking about moving shortly from BT Anytime dialup to
Plus Net's new cheap 15 quid broadband package....

HAs anyone any comments on PlusNet's broadband with Linux etc.?
Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dobson" <steve at dobson.org>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Dial-up twice


> Jon / All
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:14:14AM +0100, Jon Fautley wrote:
> > Mike Diack wrote:
> > >Crumbs!
> > >I'm amazed, I never managed to get Freeserve to work with Linux, when I
> > >last
> > >tried in in Dec 2002.
> >
> > I've never had any problems with Linux dialling up to Freeserve - they
> > just use standard kit to dial into and establish a PPP session. The ISP
> > I've had most trouble with was Demon, as they use a nonstandard
> > dialup/login method (you need to send an extra <CR> to start the PPP
> > session).
>
> Demon was my ISP until I went broadband.  I first connected with
> Solaris X66 and found a useful little document on the web (from
> work) that told me how to set it all up.  Never really had a problem
> with either Solaris or Linux.  PEBKAC errors - year there was one...
>
> I did have one little problem with Demon.  I lost (or binned) the letter
> with the DNS servers' IP addresses.  I re-installed from my notes but
> had forgotten to write the IP addresses there.  So having re-installed,
> and got the link to Demon back up all I could do was ping random IP
> addresses, most the machine at the other end - not a lot of good.
>
> So I made my one and only call to Demon's Helpdesk - well it was 2AM so
> I managed to get a response quickly.  When I had identified my self
> the conversation when something like this:
>
> HD: Oh, we don't appear to have which operating system you are using
>     in our database.  What OS are you using?
>
> ME: Solaris
>
> HD: Solaris?
>
> ME: Yes, it's a flavor of Unix.
>
> HD: (sharp intake of breath) We don't support Unix, we can...
>
> ME: (when I managed to get a word in) I only have a simple question
>     of a general nature.  What are the IP addresses of your DNS servers?
>
> HD: Oh!  (rattles of numbers without a pause - did didn't look them up
>     he must have known them by heart)
>
> ME: Thank you (and hangs up)
>
> :-)
>
> Steve
>
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