On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Drew Loker wrote:
> I don't get it. FW comes up the other day (Thursday) and says, no more FW.
> Go get Juno. Sunday, access was terminated and all you could do is get their
> banner page redirecting you to dl Juno. No other URLs would work.
>
> I was pretty bummed to say the least, except that my DSL was hooked up
> Saturday...just in the nick of time. But this still left my Newt out in the
> cold.
Wow... they haven't done this up in Canada yet. I'm connected right now
using my freewwweb ID, surfing and using SSH normally.
> Here is what I know. FW shares the same access number in my town with a lot
> of other carriers, liek Juno and Earthlink. I think this is the case
> elsewhere also. So, I don't know if this is why, and if eventually, my id
> will be diabled and I am only able to browse right now because if I was on a
> regualr browser, they would be able to redirect my URL lookups, and it just
> isn't able to do that on the Newt. Or, is there a chance that my id will
> continue to work. ANybody else have an idea about this? What is going on
> with everybody elses connections? What is the best alternative?
Here in Canada, freewwweb uses UUNet as the dialup provider. If you go
here:
http://www.uu.net/network/pops/
You can get lists of UUNet numbers by country, which probably correspond to
freewwweb's access numbers.
> On a side note, I had hooked up a coupel of dozen people with FW. Most are
> going to be ok because they are on PCs. I have foudn alternate access for
> one of the people with a PowerMac with AltaVista, but it seems to require a
> PowerMac. I have a couple of other people with non-PM Macs. Anybody have an
> idea what to use for them?
Can anyone suggest a free ISP that *doesn't* require the use of an ad
client?
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