Re: AOL
- From: Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:27:52 +0100
soup wrote:
Aunt has recently gotten a new laptop which runs os X she normally
resides in America but she stays in Edinburgh for weeks at a time, as
such she wants to use AOL dial-up to access the internet, everyone and
their cousin has told her to go broadband but she still insists it must
be dial-up. She can not find a disc in any shop that has AOL dialup for
os X software on it (seem to remember there used to be HUGE boxes of
these things in any shop even remotely connected with computers), so I
have been given the task of downloading same from the 'net does anyone
have any addys were I could start ? Was going to download from one site
but it was going to download the version suitable for this machine (a
Windows desktop not a Mac laptop) so I stopped it .
it does not exist
use a wireless modem and a LAN
or use a windows machine set up for bridged ethernet as a gateway
or use a mobile phone as a modem and speak to it via blue tooth
she can use the houses LAN
http://info.aol.co.uk/downloads/aol_macosx.adp runs OK on this machine OS 10.4.7 - bring your own access asa LAN
there are no drivers for the BT cable modem
although the mac can recognise it
modern power books don't even have an internal modem
I am using on a 10mb / 10 mb lan / wan as a community of 250 appartments we have our own server in a cellar which provides phones and could do cable tv as well
I could also take this amchine to the library and log on to their wirless connection as a lan
speak to the people at http://www.three.co.uk/index.omp
NOT http://www.3g.co.uk/
Sony Ericsson K800i is a good modem
check coverage with post code first
getther 3G data card
>with the NEW 3G data card from 3, get faster access to the web in more places. 3's data card gives you high-speed web access anywhere in our 3G network coverage area.
It's simple - slots straight into your laptop & with a few clicks you are online
It's wireless - No messy cables & no fuss
It's portable - with 88% 3G network coverage, we've got you covered<<
<<
not good needs XP drivers
you could run it from WinXP on parallesl and make a bridged connection IN THEORY !!!
not for aunties
sony mobile phone as modem but negotiate hard for a fixed price connection
I got the wrong phone and paid too much
1 CARPHONE WAREHOUSE, EDINBURGH
2 CARPHONE WAREHOUSE, EDINBURGH
3 PHONES 4U, EDINBURGH
4 PHONES 4U, EDINBURGH
5 TMT MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, EDINBURGH
6 THE LINK, EDINBURGH
7 PHONES 4U, EDINBURGH
8 THE LINK, EDINBURGH
9 3 AT SUPERDRUG, EDINBURGH
10 CALLOGIC LTD, EDINBURGH
the technology will work but the price plans look to be lousy
there should be a fixed price data only connection
AOl UK will tell you they don't support the Mac if you phone them
Hugh W
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