Dial-up Modems no longer supported???

[Ilija Milicevic]

Choosing the right mirror is the biggest deal. There is something to be said
about tweaking the update process. When you have to do a massive update
(like when doing a fresh install), you have to establish a separate
connection for each package and when there's thousands of little packages,
it slows down the whole process to a crawl. As for dialup, it's not a viable
option any more in most of the world. I think they should still support it
but I'm talking from a Third World perspective. Had I lived in Europe or
South America, I wouldn't even consider it as an option. Even here, as long
as you live in a big city, you still have tethering as a viable option
(price-wise).

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Che Guebeara <cheguebeara at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
> > Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: mathieu.tl at gmail.com
> > 4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E  FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93
> >
>
> 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.
>
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