I'm vaguely curious how much Net-Tamer has changed in the ensuing decade(point-five). It's been a while since I had a PPP dialup account so I'd have to go through some effort to make use of it myself.
(There are also TCP/IP packet drivers for DOS that work with PPP, SLIP, and Ethernet, and several Internet programs to use them, but even 15 years ago they weren't of much interest to me because a lot of them really need a 386 or better to be practical and if I had that much power at my disposal I'd run something other than DOS. If you have a 286 with an EEMS/EMS 4.0 memory card and an appropriate memory manager you *might* be able to make use of some of them. On a machine without DOS UMB support loading the TCP/IP stack usually consumes so much base memory you're kind of SOL running anything on top of it. I *think* some Compaq 286 machines have chipset support to emulate EEMS with the right driver, but don't quote me on that.)
(There are also TCP/IP packet drivers for DOS that work with PPP, SLIP, and Ethernet, and several Internet programs to use them, but even 15 years ago they weren't of much interest to me because a lot of them really need a 386 or better to be practical and if I had that much power at my disposal I'd run something other than DOS. If you have a 286 with an EEMS/EMS 4.0 memory card and an appropriate memory manager you *might* be able to make use of some of them. On a machine without DOS UMB support loading the TCP/IP stack usually consumes so much base memory you're kind of SOL running anything on top of it. I *think* some Compaq 286 machines have chipset support to emulate EEMS with the right driver, but don't quote me on that.)