On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:52:39PM -0800, Ben Johnson wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good, local, and at least sort of Linux > friendly ISP? Pyramid.net has the lowest price so far on DSL with a
Great Basin is very Linux-friendly. They also provide WISP to some areas. I can't really comment much on price, as they're too far away from my closest CO for me to use them, but their DSL seemed competitively priced the last time I checked into it. > (The static IP is for the vpn I plan to connect to this location > with.) You might shave some money by using a dynamic DNS service (such as dyndns.org) to get the benefits of static without the overhead of paying for fixed-IP. That's what I do; even if you buy the argument that ISP's need to assign dynamic addresses to conserve their IP space, almost all of them refuse to sell fixed-IP unless you buy them in multiple-address bundles (usually five addresses at a time), which of course drives up the price for no good reason that I can see. Bottom line: choose your (W)ISP based on customer service, rather than anything else. They all have to use an SBC loop anyway, which is a relatively fixed cost, so the level of service they provide is their primary value-add, and the real differentiator between them. As long as you avoid Charter, you're more than halfway to good service anyway. :) -- Find my Techno-Geek Journal at http://www.codegnome.org/geeklog/ _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
