I thought qworst's line charge was ~$30/month, then you add on ISP costs. ...and being that the lowest DSL ISP monthlies I've seen were $20/month, I had added up that cable internet is cheaper... but I'm guessing that you're too far our, in pleasant hill, for that...
Ben On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 14:24:32 -0800 Rick Faber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hi John, Thanks, for the note, | kinda my impression at the moment that if I have problems with my own | modem it'll be hard to get any help.. | | Anyway, I wrote peak this morning, but haven't heard back, their | pricing page suggests the quest charge is more than the current 15$ | /mon. Do you know what the current rates really are? | Thanks, again. | | Rick | | | John Sechrest wrote: | | >Hi Rick. | > | >Yes. PEAK is possible in Eugene. | > | >The modem type has really depended on what the phone company | >connected it to at the Dslam. We saw lots of variation based | >on what was connected to what. For the most part with Qwest we lived | >with what they sent out and it mostly worked fine. | > | > | > | > | >Rick Faber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > % Hi | > % | > % Sorta new here, and just realized that DSL is available at my house | > % (pleasant hill). The current quest offer seems pretty reasonable. | > % | > % I have two basic questions. Is the quest modem/router (actiontec | > 1524) % reasonable or should I look for a different one? Any | > experiences? Hmm % I always tell people it depends on what you want to | > do, so: I imagine% 3 or 4 desktops at home with different OS's, maybe | > put the wireless % switch to use that I have sitting in my closet with a | > latop and/or the % desktops. I don't *really* want to have a box to | > manage as a firewall % unless it's unavoidable. | > % | > % | > % Secondly, The choice of ISP. (Efn hasn't gotten back to me on cost - | > % but a year or more ago they were out of my league) Anyone know if | > % it's possible to use Peak (corvallis) or dsl-only.net or | > % aracnet(spiritone) out of portland? Or any other local preferences. | > % It'd be nice to have the static IP and no MSN ties... | > % | > % If there is a FAQ somewhere, please point me, but I couldn't find one. | > % | > % Thanks, Rick | > % | > % | > % _______________________________________________ | > % EuG-LUG mailing list | > % [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > % http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug | > | >----- | >John Sechrest . Helping people use | > . computers and the Internet | > . more effectively | > . | > . Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > . | > . | > http://www.peak.org/~sechrest | >_______________________________________________ | >EuG-LUG mailing list | >[EMAIL PROTECTED] | >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug | > | > | | | _______________________________________________ | EuG-LUG mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
