On Wednesday 15 January 2003 7:21 pm, John Pettigrew wrote:
In a previous message, Neal McDermott wrote:
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.
All UK ISPs *allow* you to connect using any OS. They just won't support anything other than Windows or MacOS (with a few exceptions). So, I'd just try connecting. You should be able to get the relevant details (phone number and server addresses) reasonably easily.
Having said that, BT are by no means the cheapest or best-value ISP around, so it might well be worth checking the others out anyway!
And if you can get the tech support number from the sales people as you "have a few techie questions you would like to ask" and then when you phone it ask to speak to "Second Line technical support" - you know, the guys who actually know stuff, a fair few will know about Linux :o) "First Line" basically look stuff up on cribsheets. "Second Line" is bound to have someone who knows something about Linux somewhere in the office <grin> Thats my experience with Telewest [Here in Yorkshire]. So, yeah, BT are evilly expensive in general. Demon worked out quite nicely for me [they had tech support that supported Linux AND Amiga :grins:] but that was a fair few years ago. Check out http://www.demon.net to see if they still do. Hope this helps, If not then sorry for clogging up inboxes!