Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1885 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Monday, 2009-04-06 at 07:13 -0400, James Knott wrote:
>
> > What is a "dial-up connection"?  ;-)
>
> You can dial up to a computer, which would fill the part of an ISP.
> Ie, give you tcp/ip over the rs232 line or modem. Once you have
> tcp/ip, you have a completely secure (as far as a telephone call is
> secure) network connection, separate from internet, and with all the
> network services available to you: web, ssh, ftp... and of course, as
> many terminals as you like - up to the bandwidth limit, of course.

I guess you missed the ";-)".  I am quite familiar with dial up access,
having used it for many years, going back to the early '80s.  However, I
have been on a cable modem connection for over 10 years.

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