Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

From: Daniel B. (REMOVEdanielTHIS_at_fgm.com)
Date: 08/30/05

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    Darrell Bellerive wrote:

    > Can anyone share some tips, tricks, or favorite applications to increase
    > the useability of a dial-up Internet connection?

    Set up auto-dialing.

    Maintain a local Debian mirror (so when you decide to install or upgrade
    a package you can install it right away (without having to wait for it
    to download)).

    Use "at" and wget or equivalent to queue large downloads to run
    overnight.

    Daniel 

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