Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jim Roland" <> | Subject | Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU! | Date | Sun, 1 Jul 2001 19:20:57 -0500 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Pollard" <jesse@cats-chateau.net> To: <kmw@rowsw.com>; "Kurt Maxwell Weber" <kmw@rowsw.com>; "J Sloan" <jjs@mirai.cx> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 3:03 PM Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!
[snip] > >In that case, I have the following options: > >1) Start my own ISP > > Only if the upstream provider doesn't require you to use windows. > > >2) Use Windows XP > >3) Not use Windows XP and not be able to use my current ISP > >4) Go to a different ISP > > You may not be able to find another. It took me a year. I gave up. I was > fortunate that Verio doesn't care what you have... though if you use > the dialup or basic dsl, MS is it, or no real support. > > >I'll just have to decide which I value more. As long as I won't be killed > >for using a different OS, I still have a choice. > > No, but you might be forced out of a job.
In one of the large metro areas in which I live, there are a LOT of ISPs that do not require you to use Windows, but will not support you beyond the IP layer if you don't. Use linux, install PPP with MS-CHAPv2 (with or without MPPE) for your dialup connection and it works just fine on a Winblows-only ISP. DSL or Cable, just acquire your actual IP settings program a Linksys router/hub box and be done with it.
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