Using the Internet and Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
Index:
1. Internet
VisualRoute has links to the following documents relating to Internet and its structure:
- APNIC - Asia Pacific Network Information Center
- ARIN - American Registry for Internet Numbers
- DNS LOC - by the co-author of RFC 1876
- ICMP.DLL - Microsoft's ICMP API
- IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
- Internet Traffic Report
- Internet Weather Report
- InterNIC - Domain Name Registration Service
- ISP Locator - Locate an ISP by area code
- List of useful RFC's (Ohio State)
- NANOG - The North American Network Operators' Group
- NOC contact information
- RFC 954 - WHOIS protocol specification
- RFC 1034 - Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities
- RFC 1035 - Domain Names - Implementation and Specification
- RFC 1118 - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet
- RFC 1180 - A TCP/IP Tutorial
- RFC 1206 - New Internet User FAQ
- RFC 1207 - Experienced Internet User FAQ
- RFC 1700 - Assigned Numbers
- RFC 1876 - A means of expressing location information in DNS
- RFC 1918 - Address Allocation for Private Internets
- RFC Editor - Request For Comments Editor
- RFC Index at Ohio State University
- RIPE - Réseaux IP Européens (Europe registry)
- Russ Haynal's ISP Page
- SprintLink -- MCI -- UUNET -- PSI -- vBNS -- Verio
- TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 - W. Richard Stevens
- Understanding IP Addressing - Introduction to CIDR
- www.sockets.com - WinSock Development Information
2. Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
ISPs
- Listed by country at Topology.org and TheList
- Indexes of UK ISPs at 'Internet Magazine'.
- Webperf has information on the relative performance of ISPs in different countries, including the U.K.
- ISPs I have used outside the UK to enable local phone-rate access to Internet and my email accounts. When signup pages are in a language you do not know, use Babelfish to translate the web pages..
- Barbados: Sunbeach Communications Inc., A '15 Hour Account' costs BB$35.00. There are no free ISPs in Barbados.
- France: FreeSurf; Free. You need a French address and telephone number. Free.
- Italy: Virgilio.it The signup is In Italian. Free.
- USA.: 'Yahoo! Geocities'. It is free but has advertizing.
Free ISPs in the UK with local telephone dialup numbers
- Bigwig.net provides up to five free email accounts with free digital certificates, Usenet news and 10-MB web space. It was launched on 01/10/1998. Register at http://www.bigwig.net/join/application.htm and wait to receive a login name and password via email. Then visithttp://ww.bigwig.net/auto and set up the account. There are separate local-cost telephone numbers for 'normal' modem connections, K56FLEX modems, X2 modems, 64K ISDN and 128K ISDN. They support 'FrontPage server extensions' for people who author and 'publish' webs using 'FrontPage98'.
- British Library.
- BT 'Clickfree'
- FreeNet provides up to five free email accounts, Usenet news and 5-MB web space. They provide connections of V34, Kflex56k, V90, X2 and ISDN 64k, 128k. They charge £49 for software and support which inexperienced users may need.
- FreeUK.
- Freeserve provides up to five free email accounts, Usenet news and 25-MB web space. Use the guide at http://www.tech-info.freeserve.co.uk to setup an account, on-line or obtain a CD called ‘Freeserve CD’ from Dixons or Currys shops, or from current ‘PC World’ or ‘The Link’ magazines. Support and Customer Services.
- Tripod.
- VirginNet.
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