Fortified with milk and cookies, I spent some time this afternoon setting up my mother’s Internet access. We are trying Copper.net, a low cost Internet provider. This provider has a three month trial period of $1/month, with a monthly fee of $10 after that. Unlike many of the low cost providers, there is no yearly contract required, nor do they push advertising. So far I am pleased: I didn’t have any trouble getting her PC to connect to the service, and when I left her email and web surfing were both working. Before I left, she walked through booting her PC and logging on to the Internet.
I used the TheOpenCD to load Mozilla on her machine to use for email and web surfing. This is the second copy I’ve burned and distributed, and I appreciate not having to download Mozilla over dialup connections.