I wasn't sure I should answer this on the list since it's slightly off-topic,
but there is a **LINUX perspective** here, so ....
The current situation with ADSL under LINUX is that Bezeq allows you to choose
from a list of ISPs and you can change whenever you want. As I wrote before,
two of them are now charging for the service - beware!!! The others are still
free, until the experiment is over in another three weeks. The LINUX problem
is that we don't get to see the Bezeq-WOW portal, but Dani Arbel posted
excellent instructions on how to set up the system and connect to any of the
ISPs without actually seeing the portal. So, as you see, so long as you keep
away from ACTCOM and ISRASRV who charge for the service, there's no real reason
to want or need an account with an ISP.
The big question is what happens next month when the experiment is over. Since
I haven't heard of any plans for Bezeq to support LINUX (can anyone correct me
on that?), and since the **per minute** charges will be very expensive, we'll
need a way to get connected to a chosen ISP.
BTW, in my case, I have an account with barak-online (not ADSL) and all my
e-mail is sent via that account's POP mail. I also have a few other accounts
(aquanet, netvision, etc.) and I receive e-mail at all of the accounts. I
discovered, at the begining of the experiment, that when I connect to a random
ISP, sometimes I can receive and send e-mail via all my POP mail boxes. Other
times, I can only receive but not send. And still other times, I can't get or
send mail. After experimenting, I discovered that this is not a random thing,
but that only some of the ISPs on the ADSL experiment allow you to connect to a
POP account belonging to a different ISP. Assuming I want to continue using all
these POP mail boxes in future, chosing an ISP who allows this will also be an
issue.
On 29-Nov-2000 Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I haven't yet got ADSL. I use Linux exclusively here, and was
> wondering - is it possible at all to choose different ISPs
> and use them with your own username/password (on subscribtion
> basis) rather than use guest accounts and pay per-minute
> (as in a post I read here lately),
> without Bezeq's portal?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Ilya Konstantinov
>
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