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[Ron Hudson]

On Sep 14, 2004, at 1:34 AM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:

> Ron Hudson wrote:
>
>> Too bad the phone company (sbc) doesn't make a slow dsl available, no 
>> faster
>> than my modem but always on and shareable.. that's what I miss most.
>
> Dial-up is shareable, but it can be pretty slow if you do so.  Look at 
> one of the single-floppy firewall Linux distros out there.  I've had 
> pretty good results from freesco (http://www.freesco.org) - easy to 
> configure, and pretty solid in operation.
>
> Gordon.
>

You would still have to dial up every time you want on. It only takes a 
moment to dial up, but I find it changes my web browsing habits anyway. 
I wonder what the phone company would do if a local call lasted more 
than a few hours... (number of days..)

I'll check out freesco, do you have to tell it when you want it to dial 
out?