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Jeanne Hedge - 02 Dec 2004 23:33 GMT

I'm thinking of dropping my ISP. I don't really use their newsfeed (I
use the German one), and I have access to other sources of email
addresses, but what I don't have is a connection other than the one
provided by the ISP.

Can anyone recommend a company that provides reasonably priced dial-up
connections (dial-up is the only option) with numbers throughout the
US?

Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha

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lal - 03 Dec 2004 15:50 GMT

> I'm thinking of dropping my ISP. I don't really use their newsfeed (I
> use the German one), and I have access to other sources of email
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> http://www.jhedge.com

Greetings...

I use SysMatrix.Net. They charge $10 / month for service and I do use
their news feed. It's been quite reliable. I've been with them for
over a year and have never had a problem that they didn't address
quickly and efficiently.

lal

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Norm - 04 Dec 2004 11:41 GMT

> I'm thinking of dropping my ISP. I don't really use their newsfeed (I
> use the German one), and I have access to other sources of email
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> connections (dial-up is the only option) with numbers throughout the
> US?

One lookout is that some (like NetZero who runs the network for
manyothers like BlueLight) pings your IP address from virtually every
node in their network. What does this mean? Well,if you use a firewall
it means you have to put up with all this OR else enable pings to the
whole Net. Norm

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got." <via Nat King Cole

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John F. Eldredge - 04 Dec 2004 14:43 GMT

>> I'm thinking of dropping my ISP. I don't really use their newsfeed
>> (I use the German one), and I have access to other sources of
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>a firewall it means you have to put up with all this OR else enable
>pings to the whole Net. Norm

What do they do if you have a firewall that actively rejects, or
silently discards, the pings?

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Norm - 04 Dec 2004 18:08 GMT

> On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 06:41:42 -0500, Norm <xyzzy@mercurylink.net>
> >One lookout is that some (like NetZero who runs the network for
> >manyothers like BlueLight) pings your IP address from virtually
> >every node in their network. What does this mean? Well,if you use
> >a firewall it means you have to put up with all this OR else enable
> >pings to the whole Net. Norm

I misspoke: Juno or Netzero own the network that several other ISPs use

> What do they do if you have a firewall that actively rejects, or
> silently discards, the pings?

Apparently nothing different than if you withhold permission or deny the
attempts: life goes on although it may be they will drop the connection
after awhile under the assumption it's inactive - I don't know, I
dropped Juno straightaway and during the install process for NetZero I
saw it was the same gig so I never registered. BTW, I only used Ping as
a simple illustration - they sent other packets as well which I
ignored. The point being, once an IP address is open to packets it's
open to hack - by the old datagram overflow as an example. Ping is a
bit innocoulous, other thingies are not, especially if one has more
complex dataports open. HTH, Norm

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got." <via Nat King Cole

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Krista - 05 Dec 2004 08:53 GMT

I am on dial-up, but it's through my local phone company and therefore
no help to you. We're sending ISP purrs, though!

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Krista

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