Dialup Internet Access

Posts Tagged ‘DSL’

I switched (from Aol Dialup) to my local DSL provider and that connection is working great. I tried uninstalling as much Aol programming as I could, including taking it out of my startup folder. Still, when I boot up, it automatically loads Aol. Also when I click on any internet-related icon on my desktop, it immediately begins loading Aol. This is very slow and annoying as well. I tried calling Aol tech support and after ten minutes in VRU hell, I was told I was being transferred to someone in tech support. Then I heard a click and got a recorded message saying “we can not help you at this time!” Help!!!!

My club is too cheap to get DSL and is using dial up and just got a computer running Vista. There are a couple of user at the club who need to be able just to run a program that does a file transfer. The problem is that I haven’t been able to get the dial up connection to fire with anything besides Firefox or IE. How do I make Vista do the dialup when I run one of the file transfer programs. I’ve tried ping, nslookup, etc. I suppose that I could make it dial by running IE and putting in a delay, but that is QUITE inelegant. Can you do better?
I actually have the “dial when a connection is needed” option already set. It often dials for IE, but not always and rarely, if ever, dials for SFTP or for any of the other file transfer programs. This is something that is specific to Vista (and rather annoying at that).

all i can say is i went from dialup to dsl, and my brand new, 600 dollar computer wont show internet backgrounds.

768 kbps dsl is how many times faster than 56k dialup (or 45k what I usually connect at on dialup)? Is it like 12 times faster or something like that?

Can I run a PC on dialup and a Mac on dsl at the same time on same telephone line ?