[Wolves] Suse 9.2

[Peter Cannon]

On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:34, sparkes wrote:
> Peter Cannon wrote:
> > Trouble is this is the most important feature of 'any' operating system
> > if you cant connect to the Internet you might as well get an XBox instead
> > and youd be surprised at the amount of people who still use dial-up.
>
> Nah, you can't do dial up on an Xbox they are broadband only ;-)

That explains the XBox problem then. But I still cant make toast with the 
stupid thing!

> The problem started when the dialer interfaces to PPP where created.
> With a little foresight they would make the dial up process transparent
> to the user and the OS just see another network coming online.  Once
> dialing is setup you should never have to use something like wvdial it
> should just work.  Want to connect to the internet, bring up the
> interface, a mouse click to most users.  None of this cryptic messages
> or windows showing the dial up process proceeding you should only see
> that stuff when you are debugging not using.

Uuumm yeeesss thats if you have a perminant connection.

As you well know Dial-up and Broadband are two totally different concepts 
Broadband as you rightly say is in effect WAN and a transparent part of a 
network (even if your PC is standalone) Dial-up on the other hand is tool to 
enable connection to that facility.

The problem is with application/service that allows that connectivity it 
should be irrelevant what service you use to gain access to the Net.

More importantly if wvdial, minicom, Kinternet, Qinternet and Cinternet are 
redundant applications due to (supposedly) everyone having Broadband then why 
is the 9.2 versions of these apps updates on the 9.1 versions? you don't need 
diallers for Broadband so why is someone working on updated versions then? 
and more importantly why are they still included in Suse? I suspect that if 
it said "Only works with Broadband" on the box they may not get as many home 
users!

I would love Broadband at home I would also love the Motorola V3 but I cant 
justify the cost both of which would cost me around £30.00 a month each, I 
know you can get Blueyonder for £14.99 but if memory serves me right its only 
128K which to me is not broadband when you consider I get 46K on my modem, 
"Ah", you say "But thats 82K less" true but then I'm only paying 20 pence 
once a week which adds up to 80p a month as apposed to £14,99

:-)

-- 
Regards,
Peter Cannon.
peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk

"There is every excuse for not knowing
there is no excuse for not asking"
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