linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: New to group with QUESTION

On 6/26/2011 4:00 PM, g.linuxducks wrote:

> I am not going to pursue this and forgetting Linux Dial Up. Sorry I was
> not more help. I would be horrified if Linux is not Dial Up Ready out of
> the box. It would be the only operating system in the world that is not
> then, and the world began on Dial Up which is why I mean horrified. I
> mean almost as meaning they are a laughing stock to the average
> consumer. It is like they are a work in progress as an operating system
> to the average consumer.
>

'Dial-up' is not uniformly structured the way that ethernet is.

First, to the best of my knowledge, no computer on the retail market
today, comes equipped with a dial-up modem card installed, but almost
all modern computers have ethernet cards installed, or, more likely,
have ethernet on the mainboard.

Second, even if you install a dial-up modem card on your computer, you
will only be able to connect to your ISP if your ISP supports dial-up,
AND you are able to either find or design a 'send-expect' script that
works for your specific ISP.

I remember having to log onto CompuServe with dial-up... huge pain in
the ass, setting up the script.

Also, another hurdle is that with Linux, only a few dial-up modems (of
the hardware type) will work... Win-Modems will not work with Linux,
only with Windows operating systems.

Finally, dial-up is pretty slow, compared to ethernet... wifi or wire.

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