Setting up dial-up (fairly simple)
Now my friend doesn't know how to set up a dial-up connection, as he got broadband with his new computer, that is crazy!! I love using dial-up, sure cable is fine when I need to download something, but dial-up is good for more than one reason.
1. It lags. Yes, I like the lag, I play a couple of online games, and the lag makes me much harder to kill :3pow:
2. Anonymity, you been making some enemies in those 1337 hax0r chans on IRC? If you are being attacked, or if you have a trojan on your computer than you have no idea how to remove, so you need to log on to the net to find out, then dial-up will offer more protection as it assigns to a different IP address each time logon. (Dynamic IP service) Or if somebody is trying to DDoS or DoS then reconnecting may help you avoid those bandwidth attacks. :ubergun:
3. THE BEST REASON FOR A DIAL-UP ISPs IS: SHELLS! Many dial-up ISPs offer shell accounts, either for free, if you ask or for a small fee. Most broadband ISPs don't offer this because with broadband, you can cause a lot of mayhem, or maybe, like my cable ISP, they don't use a unix server to offer a shell account to. (DAMN SHAW! Doesn't use unix!)
4. And the final good reason I can think of for using dial-up is: FREE!! There are free dial-up ISPs that are spread all over north america. I don't know about other countries but I am sure that there are some everywhere. The 2 main ones are Juno and Netzero, they have merged, but I use juno and haven't noticed any actual difference, in access numbers or anything like that. And though they use banners :confused: (there are ways to get around them, though I don't like that as these companies provide a valuable service and I hope they continue to do so)
And one thing I want to get out of the way are war dialers. I just want to spend like 2 seconds explaining them, so plz bear with me here if you know all about 'em. War dialers call up a crapload'a numbers checking for a certain tone that sounds if there is a server on the other end and not somebody who can *69 yo ass! War dialers used to be very useful for finding BBSs etc. All that really old 80s/early 90s internet stuff. Now there isn't much point to it.
Anyways, goto your "my computer icon", click "dial-up networking" (You must have a modem to do this) and then click on "make a new connection". I only don't know if this works for XP as I don't have it and have never used it. Just add in your access number, and user name, then finish it, and then add in your password when you try to connect. So easy huh? Well, you know have the power to flame until the sun goes down on IRC. Use it wisely my son.
P.S. Sorry, this tutorial is kinda lame, but I just wanted to spread the word about the miracle of dial-up.