From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 16 0:16:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fep02-svc.tin.it (mta02-acc.tin.it [212.216.176.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1E0614F0A for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 00:16:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from molter@tin.it) Received: from nympha.ecomotor.it ([212.216.61.85]) by fep02-svc.tin.it (InterMail v4.0 201-221-105) with SMTP id <19990616071623.BAHB26705.fep02-svc@nympha.ecomotor.it> for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:16:23 +0200 Received: (qmail 874 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Jun 1999 07:14:44 -0000 From: "Marco Molteni" Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:14:44 +0200 (CEST) X-Sender: molter@localhost To: Nathan Dorfman Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: european internet access? In-Reply-To: <19990615222121.A46042@rtfm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Nathan, On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Nathan Dorfman wrote: [..] > Is regular dial-up PPP used in Italy as well? If so, where can I find some > kind of adapter to plug the phone line into my modem (RJ11)? If not, how > else can I get online, and what kind of hardware do I need to buy? And of > course, contact info for service providers around there would help as well. Sure, we use PPP in Italy (and ISDN too) ;-) New telephones come with a plug into which you can insert a rj11 plug, ie: telephone box -- rj11 plug -- cable -- rj11 plug -- telephone plug -- wall socket ^ so you insert your plug here------------------------| if you'll have an old telephone, I think you can find an adapter in a normal shop who sells electricity appliances (aargh my english, I hope you understand ;-) Regarding ISP, maybe your best bet is to find a free 1-month subscription, which are pretty common in computer magazines (try "PC professionale") National-wide ISP (connection speed ugly at night) are TIN (www.tin.it), Tiscali (maybe www.tiscalinet.it or similar), Infostrada (www.infostrada.it) Or, you can find a local to Santa Marinella ISP, by looking in the italian Yellow Pages ("Pagine Gialle", www.paginegialle.it) under "internet". > Internet Cafes that let you plug into the ethernet instead of using their > pre-setup lose98/MSIE boxen would be great as well. mmh, don't know about it. You'll have to try. Enjoy your stay in our sunny Italy Marco --- If we want to avoid zombies, we have to wait for our children. -- W. R. Stevens To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message