linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: New to group with QUESTION ) @ Robert

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: New to group with QUESTION ) @ Robert

In short what I meant is you are saying the common dial up v.92 modem built
into all desktops only works with Windows and not Linux ? ? ?
I find that too extraordinary to believe as the desktop came in off Unix. It
was developed to support all systems for connectivity and the Ethernet Card
can run a 10/100M broadband connection - that is up to 100M per second -
since the when ? Windows 95 ? Somewhere in there. It will probably be
another 100 years before we get 100M dsl although the machines are built to
deliver that kind of speed.

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From: "Robert C Wittig" <wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 5:38 PM
To: <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: 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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