Neal McDermott wrote:
I have just relocated from California to Ashford, Kent, in the UK. The house where I am living has a BT internet account, and it seems from their advertising material that you have to have windows or mac to use a BT account.
BT works fine. They even have a newsgroup btinternet.linux that tells you how to set up the connections, though you need to have a BTI account to access the newsgroup, a little awkward if, like me, linux is the _only_ way you can access the net. BT itself is reliable, but a lot of the 'phone lines in Kent (I used to live in Canterbury) use aluminium cable which gives poor connections especially after rain. In fairness, when I lost the connection, I 'phoned them up and they replaced some part of the connection to the exchange. -- JDL