On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:54:51PM -0700, Christopher Allen wrote: > > Also, in what general areas have people been able to order service? I know > Coburg road has it. Anywhere else? > Can't get @home or Qwest DSL at 80N Grand ST (Whitaker neighborhood, one of my neighbors was claiming "That's financial discrimination!" ;) or 3925 Cross St (close to Bertelsen & Roosevelt). Can probably get Rio Communications DSL at the Grand St. address. According to a Rio salesperson, they rent server space and copper lines from Qwest and can reach 2x as far from the central switching station as Qwest's DSL. Which reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask. The Cross St address above is where my (1/3 mine anyway) business operates. Until now, there's only been need for 1 computer online, and we've made do with a dialup 56k. As business is good, we now need 4 boxes to be able to access the 'net at a time. I'm also EXTREMELY unhappy with our virtual hosting service, hosting.ca, and am looking to move our site, www.eugeneglassalliance.com, somewhere else. Those jackasses at hosting.ca don't know what their doing. They recently upgraded their servers (now running a 2.2.14 SMP kernel and MySQL 3.22.23; upgrade?!?), and in the process really screwed up our database. Luckily I wrote a little php script so I can dump the database, and had done that before the supposed upgrade. Come to think of it, I should have known something was up when I was able to access mysqldump. The real kicker was when I asked them for a copy of the database after the upgrade, and they sent me the files straight uotta /usr/local/mysql/var/. I asked them if they were copying those files into the "new" server, then went on to remind them that that's a big no-no unless they stop the MySQL daemon, but since they have several users I doubt they were stopping the daemon. I haven't heard from them since. And so my question(s). Can someone suggest a way to get big bandwidth where DSL and @home don't reach? I've looked into T-1 lines (business isn't that good ... yet ;), and fractional T-1 (fits the budget a bit nicer than full T-1), but still get the feeling that either is pretty much a ripoff compared to @home, or DSL even. The main benefit of the T-1's would be that we could host our own sites, and the connection would be reliable. Does anyone have any suggestions for T-1/fractional T-1 providers? I called around for prices, and was kind of surprised at the difference in price from one provider to the next. The T-1 prices were all around $1k/mo, fractional at 256k varied from $250 - $350/mo, and fractional at 512k had an even larger standard deviation. <- Wow, I actually used a term in real life that I thought I was wasting my time learning in those damn physics labs ;) Hosting sites is not super important, but I'd like to be able to upload video to a RealServer in realtime. The RealServer sits on multiple T-3's, and takes care of dishing out multiple streams. 50k upstream should be plenty on my end. Sorry for the mish-mash of an email. I've got a lot to figure out in the next few weeks, and I really haven't a clue what to do. TIA, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
