ISP's

[richard at aoi.ultranet.com (Richard Royston)]

I would like to get ISP service from AT&T for use at home in my linux box, as 
I shall be moving sometime in the not too distant future, and they have access 
everywhere (at least in the States).

When I tried to get a login and a password from a person at AT&T I was told 
that people, as opposed to computers, cannot access this type of information; 
I got the impression that maybe it doesn't exist until it's assigned by some 
program running in a Windows system somewhere in AT&T, and that it will only 
assign it to another Windows program running in my computer. I've received 
hints that if I do that, there are people at AT&T who can tell me where to 
look in my Windows system, once I've done that, and extract this information, 
and that then I could then put it in my Linux box, and, voila!

Is this really true, does anyone know, or is there another way, and what is 
the number to call, and what are the magic words to say that unlock the 
secrets? If I have to do it that way, is there anything I should know about 
the arcana of Windows that will help me to explain to AT&T's tech support what 
I'm looking for, or that could help me to find it for myself?

Any help would be gratefully received!

Thanks


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Richard J. Royston                             68 Baldwin Street
richard at aoi.ultranet.com                       Apartment 22
(617) 242-5280                                 Charlestown, MA 02129

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