Try looking up the Consumers Institute web site. http://www.consumer.org.nz/
They have a web page that will allow you to compare prices/services on different ISPs. Stuart At 10:08 25/09/02, Yuri de Groot wrote: >My employer runs two ISPs, CLEARnet and Paradise. >Neither of them "officially" support linux, although both have customers that >use linux and I have used linux with both, without problems. > >At one time, my wife's win 98 couldn't connect to clearnet but my linux box >could. Same dial-up number, same username and password. Never worked out why >and it has worked again since then. > >AFAIK, none of the "big" ISPs "support" linux, but a few local ISPs run by >hobbyists >do. IIRC a member of the CLUG runs an ISP. > >Most ISPs have two levels have "help desk", there's the non-techie staff who >sign people up and deal with standard problems (windows only), and the techie >staff who deal with non trivial problems and may or may not help with linux >(YMMV). > >If you strike a help desk operator who says "sorry we don't support that" >you've >probably reached the first level. > >The techies are either geeks you'd love to help a linux user, or an MCSE type >who will give the same reply as the first level operators. > >Yuri +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Stuart Johnsen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +Senior Technician phone: +64 (3) 364 2987 xt8991 | Information Technology Dept fax: +64 (3) 364 2332 + University Of Canterbury | New Zealand + | If the world didn't suck we'd fall off !!! :D + | + ? rotide liam eht htiw gniyalp neeb s'taht yugesiw eht s'ohw thgirlA ^Q^Q ^C^C
