Re: RH6.1 ppp TX/RX errors

[Jim Jackson <nospam [at] scs.leeds.ac.uk>]

Hull Uni has coped with this situation for ages. Kingston Telecom had
free local off peak calls ages ago and Hull used to have racks of modems.
I presume they have loadsa ISDN30 lines now :-)

On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 will [at] south-of-heaven.demon.co.uk wrote:

> sheflug - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
>
> > Hmmm, I notice you have an Edinburgh phone number, if you're a student
> > up here, you can get a uni dial-up account (you probably can even if you
> > aren't), and now telewest is all over Edinburgh, get it installed and
> > look forward to free internet (including phone calls) every evening and
> > all weekend!!!!! (You get free telewest-to-telewest local calls in the
> > evening and at weekends and the uni dial-up is on a telewest phone
> > number...)
>
> I can't imagine the uni being too happy about that. The problem with uni
> services is they have no financial reason to keep the service going. If
> people abuse it they'll just shut it down (or start using online time quotas).
> And they don't often have many modems available (at least in Sheffield
> they don't)
>
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