On Thu 19 Nov 2009 00:44 -0700, Brendan Long wrote: > So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've > been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can > find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, > so I decided, "I have a phone line, a modem and an internet connection, > maybe I can make my own ISP". There are probably ways around that windows program requirement for the free ISPs. Years ago I was able to connect to AOL using a program called penggy.