Rio's "Reach DSL" (aparently evolved from MVL) is seposed to reach up to 38800 feat from the CO as aposed to Qwest's 18000. If you sign a contract with them, be careful. Read it a couple times. Their sales guys are a little flaky but I know their techs and there good guys. I have sdsl from rio right now and the bandwith is very clean and very fast, I have like no latency though them. The MVL I think goes up to 768k. Good luck! --------------<<<((((((0))))))>>>-------------- Leo Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 24 May 2001, Jacob Meuser wrote: > 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]> > > >
