[P1] OT: Help for someone inTexarkana, TX

[Joe Jones]

On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 09:45 America/Chicago, Brian Olesky wrote:

> On 6/5/03 8:49 AM, "Mark Winter" <gooddogcomics at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> He's had trouble connecting to the internet and email and everything.
>
> When it comes to things like connecting to the Internet and getting 
> email, a
> call to his isp would be the simplest solution.

Not always - There are several ISPs here in the UK that flat out refuse 
to help you if you have a Mac, and some that won't let you connect with 
anything other than a Windows box (even though there's no special 
software, just a phone number and standard dialup PPP protocol).

The broadband services are mildly better, but there are still a lot 
that either won't help you if you have a Mac (especially OS X) or will 
tell you "err, it should work, but I don't know about Macs.. err, 
reinstall Windows on it maybe?".

My cable provider doesn't officially support OS X, but it does support 
OS 9. Fortunately, they don't use any special software for connection 
so I can just use OS X's built in networking stuff.

Joe