Dial-up group?

I cannot get broadband at home but does anyone know of a discussion
group for dial-up?
Phil

On 17 Aug 2005 11:34, "P.R.Brady" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I cannot get broadband at home but does anyone know of a discussion
>group for dial-up?

uk.net.providers (and alt.internet.providers.uk which is a bit old, but worth
searching with <http://groups.google.com> for particular questions you might
ask) Also, for ISDN, one group tended to be used (whichever ISP) and that was
freeserve.help.isdn (but I don't check it nowadays and it might be under some
'wanadoo' newsgroup or have gone away completely). Peter Morgan.

PS You'd be amazed at the off-topic trash (about browsers, etc, etc) which has
been asked in this newsgroup... so don't feel too bad - at least if it is
something about ISPs (and you get no joy in u.n.providers) - come back :-)

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UK ADSL <http://tinyurl.com/5jpa4> - Happy to save cash with Plus.Net!!

poster wrote:
> On 17 Aug 2005 11:34, "P.R.Brady" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>>I cannot get broadband at home but does anyone know of a discussion
>>group for dial-up?
>
>
> uk.net.providers (and alt.internet.providers.uk which is a bit old, but worth
> searching with <http://groups.google.com> for particular questions you might
> ask) Also, for ISDN, one group tended to be used (whichever ISP) and that was
> freeserve.help.isdn (but I don't check it nowadays and it might be under some
> 'wanadoo' newsgroup or have gone away completely). Peter Morgan.
>
> PS You'd be amazed at the off-topic trash (about browsers, etc, etc) which has
> been asked in this newsgroup... so don't feel too bad - at least if it is
> something about ISPs (and you get no joy in u.n.providers) - come back :-)
>

Thanks poster; not found that in the list! It's a bit quiet over there
isn't it - I just want to know whether V44 compression is all it's
cracked up to be and whether any providers offer it.

Phil

On 18 Aug 2005 10:57, "P.R.Brady" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>It's a bit quiet over there isn't it -

My guess is that there might be more chance of an offical representative from
an ISP looking in the u.n.p rather the a.i.p.u (I don;t think yours was cross-
posted, and there is 'life' in u.n.p but both are fairly quiet for longer and
longer periods nowadays.


>I just want to know whether V44 compression is all it's cracked up to be and
>whether any providers offer it.

FWIW, you might want to check/search for V44 / V.44 on www.ISPreview.co.uk and
www.net4now.co.uk and maybe even some of the magazine sites, www.webuser.co.uk
and so on. There may be a couple offering V.92 but I can honestly say I don't
recall anything about V.44 in recent years. Yahoo has a list of magazines :-)

At http://www.vnunet.com/news/ a quick search for you got to old articles:
2001-06-29 http://www.vnunet.com/2072063
2000-07-04 http://www.vnunet.com/2113019

And to think, Bangor was one of the areas which had EU funding to get ADSL
early. I guess you mean somewhere rural if you aren't in Bangor itself, or
somewhere else in the country. Good luck (or Home Highway!) Peter, Wrexham.

--

UK ADSL <http://tinyurl.com/5jpa4> - Happy to save cash with Plus.Net!!

poster wrote:
> On 18 Aug 2005 10:57, "P.R.Brady" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>>It's a bit quiet over there isn't it -
>
>
> My guess is that there might be more chance of an offical representative from
> an ISP looking in the u.n.p rather the a.i.p.u (I don;t think yours was cross-
> posted, and there is 'life' in u.n.p but both are fairly quiet for longer and
> longer periods nowadays.
>
>
>
>>I just want to know whether V44 compression is all it's cracked up to be and
>>whether any providers offer it.
>
>
> FWIW, you might want to check/search for V44 / V.44 on www.ISPreview.co.uk and
> www.net4now.co.uk and maybe even some of the magazine sites, www.webuser.co.uk
> and so on. There may be a couple offering V.92 but I can honestly say I don't
> recall anything about V.44 in recent years. Yahoo has a list of magazines :-)
>
> At http://www.vnunet.com/news/ a quick search for you got to old articles:
> 2001-06-29 http://www.vnunet.com/2072063
> 2000-07-04 http://www.vnunet.com/2113019
>
> And to think, Bangor was one of the areas which had EU funding to get ADSL
> early. I guess you mean somewhere rural if you aren't in Bangor itself, or
> somewhere else in the country. Good luck (or Home Highway!) Peter, Wrexham.
>

Thanks poster - I'll check up on those.

Yes, I live 5.25 km from the exchange plus wire meandering. A DACS is
there I think to improve voice quality. The EU funding is more ironic
than you think - we were asked just after the kit had been fitted to
verify its presence and serial numbers to enable the grant to be paid!
Thanks again.

Phil