OT - Wi-Fi questions

[Mortimer]

Wow, good grief people, this isn't rocket sci-entry. Most all of it
depends on the the Assisted Living policies and procedures. Why are we
making this seem harder than it is? Established is that they have
wireless, Ok no big deal. Buy a USB adapter, install the software if
needed for your operating system, find out if they require a wireless
password, which they should. If they broadcast the name of the wireless
system where you can choose it, just click on it in the wireless manager,
it will then ask for the password, enter it and you are connected. You
then can access your email, the web etc. Once you have obtained the
Internet connection you should be able to do whatever you need. I can
hardly believe the assisted living center couldn't exactly guide you
through what is needed to connect to their system. Just ask them! We here
can guess all day long, but we have NO idea how THEY have set up THEIR
system. Ask them! To the rest of you, Good God, talk about over thinking
things!

One thing occurs to me about email and newgroups. How do you access email?
Do you download it by POP into a program such as Outlook Express, Windows
(Live) Mail or Thurderbird, or do you access it via a web browser such as IE
or Firefox? In the latter case you should have no problem. However in the
former case you *might* have a problem. You will have an existing email
account with one provider and the wireless internet connection that the
assisted living facility provide will be with another provider (they may by
chance be the same company). If they are different companies you *may* find
that there are problems. Orange are / used to be notorious for preventing
you reading email from a non-Orange POP server via an Orange internet
connection, and likewise for sending email via an Orange internet connection
to a non-Orange SMTP server. You may need to change your email programme's
SMTP server to the one that the internet connection (eg Orange) provides;
alternatively leave the server unchanged but configure the email program to
logon to the SMTP server (in Windows Mail: Tools | Accounts | (highlight
email account) | Properties | Servers tabsheet, tick "My server requires
authentication", then press "Settings" and tick "same as incoming"). For
incoming POP email you may need to use a non-standard port (ie not port
110).

Newgroups may also be a problem. You may want to change the news server to
be the one provided by the internet connection rather than the one that you
used with your home internet connection.

If you do have problems, post details of your existing POP, SMTP and news
servers and the provider that the assisted living facility uses (ask them!)
and we'll try to help further.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Newgroups may also be a problem. You may want to change the news server to be
the one provided by the internet connection rather than the one that you used
with your home internet connection.

Are there any Internet Providers that still provide a Usenet server?

 

[Char Jackson]

Are there any Internet Providers that still provide a Usenet server?

My nephew has Knology and says they still offer Knology-branded access
to Giganews at no additional cost. I don't know of any other examples
here in the US.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Gene.

Yes. My ISP is Grande Communications, Inc., based here in San Marcos, TX -
and available in other Texas cities:
http://www.mygrande.com/sanmarcos/about_grande/

While not mentioned on that web page, my Internet subscription from Grande
includes Usenet access (via Giganews, I think), with over 100,000
newsgroups, including over 4,000 of the microsoft.public.* NGs (in many
languages) previously carried on msnews.microsoft.com, the public news
server that Microsoft shut down last year.

RC
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"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message

Newgroups may also be a problem. You may want to change the news server to
be the one provided by the internet connection rather than the one that
you used with your home internet connection.

Are there any Internet Providers that still provide a Usenet server?

 

[SC Tom]

Are there any Internet Providers that still provide a Usenet server?

Charter still provides usenet with their service. It gets kind of flaky at times; that's why I use E-S.

I don't think they actually run their own servers. They farm it out to High Winds, but it's still part of the Charter
internet package at no additional cost.

 

[XS11E]

Are there any Internet Providers that still provide a Usenet
server?

There very rare. When Cox dropped Highwinds news servers I, along with
many others, thought there should be a drop in price. I'm sure Cox got
a good laugh out of that. <sigh>

Now they've dropped their "Personal Web Space", still no drop in price!
<G>

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

There very rare. When Cox dropped Highwinds news servers I, along with
many others, thought there should be a drop in price. I'm sure Cox got
a good laugh out of that. <sigh>

Now they've dropped their "Personal Web Space", still no drop in price!
<G>

Maybe there will be a drop in customers?

Probably not a big one, sadly.

For you and Char Jackson, R. C. White, and SC Tom, thanks for the
information about ISPs with Usenet. Also TIA to anyone who adds more
later.

To tell the truth, I was surprised that the answer to my question was
yes

 

[Roy Smith]

Are there any Internet Providers that still provide a Usenet server?

Charter does, but I'm not impressed with it though, so instead I use
Agent Premium News.


--

Roy Smith
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Thunderbird 8.0
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 6:41:13 PM

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Are there any Internet Providers that still provide a Usenet server?

In the UK, Demon and PlusNet to name two. It's the exception rather than
the rule though nowadays. I think PlusNet don't do binary 'groups, and I
think both don't actually manage their own server, but make it look as
if they do - I think they use HighWinds.

 

[soup]

don't actually manage their own server, but make it look as
if they do - I think they use HighWinds.

Virginmedia dropped theirs but again they didn't use their own it was
highwinds.
When it was blueyonder I used theirs then when Virginmedia took over
(well NTL and Blueyonder merged then they bought use of the Virgin brand
)I used theirs I now use eternal september.

 

[choro]

Virginmedia dropped theirs but again they didn't use their own it was
highwinds.
When it was blueyonder I used theirs then when Virginmedia took over
(well NTL and Blueyonder merged then they bought use of the Virgin brand
)I used theirs I now use eternal september.

In the UK, Virginmedia dropped one some years back but their
news.virginmedia.com is still going strong with support for nearly
100,000 newsgroups including binary NGs.
-- choro

 

[Andy Burns]

In the UK, Demon and PlusNet to name two. It's the exception rather than
the rule though nowadays. I think PlusNet don't do binary 'groups, and I
think both don't actually manage their own server, but make it look as
if they do - I think they use HighWinds.

Plusnet (and BT Internet and all the brands Plusnet have gobbled up) is
farmed out to giganews

http://www.newsgroupservers.net/newsgroup_server_resellers#BE

Initialy they didn't carry this group, so I used eternal-september, but
giganews have picked up this group now.

 

[Stephen Wolstenholme]

Are there any Internet Providers that still provide a Usenet server?

I've been using the Demon Usenet service for 18 years and still am.

Steve

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[Andy Burns]

I've been using the Demon Usenet service for 18 years and still am.

You might be using the same DNS name, but the service was outsourced
three years back ...

<http://groups.google.com/group/demon.announce/browse_thread/thread/0e4d7e5cb84c598b>

 

[Stephen Wolstenholme]

You might be using the same DNS name, but the service was outsourced
three years back ...

Yes, I know about that but it is still news.demon.co.uk for users and
it's been like that since 1992.

Steve

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[XS11E]

Maybe there will be a drop in customers?

Probably not a big one, sadly.

There's no real competition, we're stuck with Cox. CenturyLink
(formerly Qwest) offers slow DSL but their reputation is no better than
Qwest so very few will deal with them.