Dial-up Modems no longer supported???

[Alfred]

On 2/21/2011 10:38 AM, komputes wrote:
> On 02/21/2011 09:31 AM, Ilija Milicevic wrote:
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> It is not because a certain technology is not used by the majority that
> it should be removed all together. I think we have made it especially
> hard on people who only have access to telephone to use ubuntuas a
> method of accessing the internet.
>
> Here is the third world use case:
> - User gets CD and installs
> - User tries to connect to the internet via telephone line
> - User hits speed bump
>
> At this point the user learns one of the following:
> - You must learn to use command line (and config files) to connect using
> pppconfig
> - You need access to the internet to download a graphical tool that
> allows simple PPP connection
> - You have a soft modem and require drivers (linuxant and such) that may
> have to be downloaded/purchased
>
> Doesn't make for a very good user experience IMO.
>
> -komputes
>
>    (]( -. .- )[)
>
>    
Right ON!

9:10 cost me way more than Windows ever did, because of this little 
Speed Bump! It took weeks to be able to get on the internet, with Dial-up.

Alfred!