OT: dialup

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi all.

Do any of you know of good dialup providers that are nationwide and can be 
used without proprietary software?
I have a blind friend in South Carolina who lives in a dead spot between 
DSL providers so she has to use dialup. she has been using basicisp but 
the local access number doesn't connect reliably for her; she ends up 
using a number that is considered long distance which works fine but gets 
her in trouble with the phone company for apparently misusing her 
unlimited long distance. Nobody seems to know why the local access number 
won't allow her to connect or stay connected; basicisp has tried to blame 
her Mac, her modem, a routing problem, etc. but it seems strange that she 
can conncect fine to the long distance number and not the local access 
one. I'm desperate to help her find a dialup service she can use. Any 
suggestions? While she is using Macosx instead of linux, she has some of 
the same issues as linux users in that she can't use anything that 
requires downloaded Windows software.




-- 
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."