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- From: joewald@crl.com (Joseph Waldvogel)
- Newsgroups: alt.amiga.slip,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Using AmiTCP / PPP / SliRP ????
- Date: 3 Mar 1996 20:40:53 GMT
- Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access
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- >Alan L.M. Buxey (kcci1@central.susx.ac.uk) wrote:
- >:> Am I just dreaming? Or is it possible??
-
- >Just for my edification, why are you trying to use SLiRP when you have PPP
- >also available???? I think SLiRP is used when you don't have a SLIP or PPP
- >device driver. Or did I miss something in your message?
-
- Your mistaken. Slirp Gives you SLIP, CSLIP, or PPP access though your Shell
- account. I use TIA myself to get CSLIP access for my Amiga, and PPP access for
- Shapeshifter though my CHEAP Shell account. He's using Slirp to GET the PPP
- access. Sure he could Pay MORE and get a real PPP account, But there are More
- Pluses I think for having a Shell Account.
-
- Take Example myself. I have a Shell accont that only Costs me $17.50 a month
- with UNLIMITED CONNECT TIME! That means I could be connected 24 Hrs a Day 7
- days a Week for the whole month and it still only costs me $17.50 for that
- month. Seconly I have 5 Megs of Hard Drive Space on THERE system which I could
- if I wanted setup a Web Page. You don't get ANY Hard Drive space with a
- Slip/PPP account. Slip/PPP acounts are MORE Per month, accually I think my ISP
- has a new option you can get a Slip/PPP account for like $24.50 a month with 8
- hours of access time per day. Pay for anything after that. But thats still No
- HD space on there system. Sure you could Pay LOTS more and keep your own system
- connected 24 Hrs a day 7 days a week and setup all that Web stuff on your own
- system, but for most peoples cases, that's not really a option.
-
- In most cases a Shell account would be the BEST option. You can almost to
- EVERYTHING you can with a Real Slip/PPP account anyway. There are a few Minor
- things you can't do, like PING, and RealAudio doesn't work. Acually the latest
- TIA suppositly now works with RealAudio, I don't know about Slirp. But what do
- most people do on the Internet? The WWW, Newsgroups, E-Mail, IRC, FTP. I can do
- ALL of that without any problems. Also belive it or NOT, Using Slirp, Tia, Even
- MLINK is Faster then a Real Slip/PPP Connection Because Everything is being sent
- Directly to the ISP's systems First, Any Bad Packets Resends don't get sent to
- you though your Slow Modem Connection. MLINK which is Amiga Only is even faster
- befcause it's using a ZMODEM protical to transfter the Data from your ISP to
- your Own Amiga, not a Packet Protical like Slip/PPP, you don't even use AmiTCP.
-
- I was lucky myself, I had help before I got Connected to the Internet by some
- Amiga Experts on the Internet.
-
-