Using the Internet and Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

This page was written by Christopher Spry.

Index:

Internet
Internet Service providers (ISPs)

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

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Free ISPs by country

• TheList has links to many ISPs, indexed by country code. 
• France: FreeSurf; Free. You need a French address and telephone number.
• Norway: Tele2. You need a Norwegian phone number and registration is in Norwegian.
• U.S.A.: 'Yahoo! Geocities'. It is free but has advertizing.
• Webperf has information on the relative performance of ISPs in different countries, including the U.K.

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 visit http://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.

Links to other free services

Information on many free internet facilities is provided at 'Free of Charge'. For example, it has lists of free web servers offering up to 11-MB free disk space on Internet, for 'home pages'.

Go to the 'home page'

Go to the 'computer index page'

© cspry@sghms.ac.uk. Department of Biochemistry & Immunology, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE, UK. Phone +44 20-8725 5819; fax +44 20-8725 5821. This page was last updated on 10 December 2001 11:27:11.