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Connecting From Home -- Finding an ISP
Contents
Dialin or Broadband?
After Your Choose: Installation and Configuration
If You Choose a Commercial ISP
Connecting From Home -- Finding an ISP
Note:
This is not the document for you:
If the computer you're connecting is on the UIC campus;
see
Network Services
.
If you're looking for the phone numbers and installation information for the ACCC dialin lines; see
ACCC Dialin Services
.
Dialin or Broadband: Finding and Selecting an Internet Service Provider
Which connection method is right for you?
Home Connections at a Glance
Dialin (For Casual Users and When You're On the Road)
Broadband: Cable Modems and DSL (For Everyone Else)
Finding an ISP
After You Choose: Installation and Configuration
First: Get a Netid and Get the ACCC Network Services Kit:
If You Decide to Use the ACCC as Your Dialin ISP
If You Decide to Use a Commercial ISP
-- Consider a Home Network
-- However You Connect, Do It Securely
-- If you can't connect to argo, icarus, or tigger:
Warning: When you connect through an commercial ISP, you are not "on the UIC campus"
Connecting From Home
Next:
Dialin or Broadband?
2001-6-4
ACCC documentation
