Dial-up Modems no longer supported???

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
> Hi: Ubuntu made it more and more difficult to use Dial up modems with all
> the newer distributions of Ubuntu. Strange thing though, almost all the
> repositories for Ubuntu software, have download speeds that are much slower
> than Dial-up, at 53K per second. It's not real cost efficient to use Ultra
> high Speed Internet and then have to wait hours to download even a little
> file. Maybe this whole issue needs to be looked at again. Telus now claims
> 50 megs per second, download speed, but the servers at repositories are only
> a very small fraction of that speed. Those servers are most of them still at
> Dial -up speed.
>

Alfred,

I think you may be seeing something different, as I have no issues
getting packages downloaded at very acceptable speeds from the
official ca.archive.u.c mirror as well as archive.u.c and others; from
various locations in Quebec.

Note that speed reported by a provider and what you will actually get
may vary greatly by location, by the number of people on a region,
etc. Perhaps you could tell us more about your type of connection so
we can see if there's something quick to be done?

As for standard dial-up, it is indeed no longer supported in UI --
that was a decision made upstream (in NetworkManager). You can still
use dial-up from the command-line, that is, using 'pppconfig' and
'pppon'. That seems to work really well from the small tests I've
done.

Regards,

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.tl at gmail.com>
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