Yea, I appreciate all the unusual services GBIS has been able to offer me like static IP and secondary DNS. I've had fast reliable service both in my connection and through the help desk for the last several years.
I noticed the $35 DSL, that's a sweet deal. The $27 SBC Yahoo connection might be good for your average single home user, but it is not connected all the time. The setup they use requires a client that has to login just like an old dial-up. You could set it up to run on boot, but regardless, that's an extra level of complexity that shouldn't need to be there AFAIC. There's also the menacing CD they expect you to use and the PITA setup procedure. All the new modems support PPPoE/NAT/DHCP so there's really no reason they can't let the modem handle the login unless they want to keep people off the network when their computers are not powered up. You can't get around it because SBC Yahoo disables that functionality in the modems they ship. I read Earthlink sets up PPPoE through the modem. I understand where problems can arrise by people having the ability to mess with their own configuration. I guess I take that for granted since I would never think to do that. It sounds like GBIS is doing it the "right" way. Thanks, - Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Craig H. Block" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:39 AM Subject: Re: [RLUG] SBC Yahoo! I don't mean to sound like an advertisement, but I wanted to mention that not all DSL ISPs in the area use PPPoE. Some of us provide a bridged Ethernet-type connection, which is much easier to work with and truly stays connected 100% of the time. -- Bruce Robertson, President/CEO +1-775-348-7299 Great Basin Internet Services, Inc. fax: +1-775-348-9412 http://www.greatbasin.net _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
