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| Thread ID: 65203 | 2006-01-10 23:23:00 | 2 telecom xtra dial-up accounts? | lance4k (4644) | Press F1 |
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| 419865 | 2006-01-10 23:23:00 | if u have 2 phone lines in ur house with telecom and 1 dial-up internet account for 1 of the lines, can u get another dial-up account for the 2nd line? | lance4k (4644) | ||
| 419866 | 2006-01-10 23:27:00 | yep as long as the numbers are different and you pay for another connection But for the cost broadband would be better value if you can get it |
bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 419867 | 2006-01-10 23:49:00 | Dial-up accounts have no relationship to a telephone line. I can use my dial-up account from any phone line anywhere. Some ISP's allow concurrent connections to the one account at an hourly charge (Xtra does) and some do not. Only ADSL is telephone line specific. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 419868 | 2006-01-11 00:20:00 | Dial-up accounts have no relationship to a telephone line. Sort of.... If you want an all you can eat connection on the 2nd line then you'll have to have another account specific to that line/number Some ISP's allow concurrent connections to the one account at an hourly charge (Xtra does) and some do not. True...but at $2.50 per hour you wouldn't want to be on there long |
bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 419869 | 2006-01-11 01:12:00 | Sort of.... If you want an all you can eat connection on the 2nd line then you'll have to have another account specific to that line/number can you explain that a bit better ? afaik no dailup in NZ is line specific. you can use your mates acc/isp on your lines if you want. in a flat once we had 2 phone lines and 2 different isp's running at the same time on 2 pc's. we often swapped them around if one person was useing the other account. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 419870 | 2006-01-11 03:42:00 | I am with tweak'e on this. No dial-up account (excluding the now almost extinct ISDN) is number or line specific in NZ. An all-you-can-eat connection can be accessed via the dial-in for the ISP from any normal telephone line (almost) anywhere in NZ. However the number of people that think it is that way is amazing. I have had this discussion with those that are sure their dial-up is even specific to a certain socket in the house. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 419871 | 2006-01-11 04:41:00 | No dial-up account (excluding the now almost extinct ISDN) is number or line specific in NZ. dunno now but freenet DID used to run this method.....the dial in was number specific |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 419872 | 2006-01-11 04:56:00 | That is still the case, I believe. But how many people still have freenet accounts? They had to do that to stop them losing huge amounts to freeloaders. freenet found that giving free Internet accounts wasn't like having a licence to print money. The "new Internet economy" turned out to be just like all the other modern economic theories: a fantasy. But GF should know better than to make absolute statements. There's always an exception. Except when there isn't. :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
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