re: att/yahoo dsl link -- ISP software and bloat
Thursday, April 5, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3925 messages posted)
|Over the last 7 years I have had 5 types of DSL service,
|and not one of them needed to install the ISP software to work.
| Steve
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A point that needs to be shouted from the mountain tops daily.
|ISP software is like [permanently] installing Adware on your Computer,
|and just Bogs them down.
|With a Router I can connect any Windows, Linux, or Mac Computers
|with almost no effort.
|
It should also be mentioned that a dial-up ISP that is *Windows-only*
cough*PeoplePC*cough is one to avoid.
They install lots of crapware as well.
AOHell is also notorious for bloating up your box with unnecessary crap.
Windoze built-in Dial-Up Networking services
are quite adequate for the task of connection to any **good** dial-up ISP.
Recent discussions of hardware vendors pre-installing Linux on their systems
has brought up the point that
one of the ways that the price of pre-installed Windoze is driven down is that
it is subsidized by *other* vendors having THEIR crapware uploaded to those boxes
and *those* corps paying for the opportunity to bloat up your disk
(and often your SysTray).
This reminds me of the days of "free" ISPs (NetZero, Juno, etc.)
where they would permanently use 15% of your browser window to display ads
(which also ate into your bandwidth requirements as the ads perodically updated).
The 1st thing the non-brain-dead did was investigate the hacks to disable the adware.
- Written in response to:
- re: att/yahoo dsl link (Steve: Thursday, April 5, 2007 at 9:45 am)
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