Dial-up Modems no longer supported???

[Che Guebeara]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:29:37 -0500
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.tl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Agree! Setting your repos to Canadian sources from the default American
ones will give you download speeds in the 200 range on a consistent
basis - even here in busy southwestern Ontario...

M.