Bill McGonigle wrote:
I'm using OpenDNS with features turned off since DNS has been
occasionally unreliable on the residential lines in the area.
pimp
For those that aren't aware, Dyn now has a free recursive service that
does many of the things that the pay OpenDNS service does. And yes,
On 12/22/2009 07:53 AM, Cole Tuininga wrote:
For those that aren't aware, Dyn now has a free recursive service
Oh, cool. I may have seen the marketing collateral for it but it never
penetrated as to what it was. I was going to setup one of my clients
(also a DynDNS client) on OpenDNS for
On 12/07/2009 11:21 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Gerry Hullge...@telosity.com wrote:
Though this lowers my reliability, I still contend
it's 59s because of backups to cell, etc.
Er, if it's down, it's down. That's what counts. The fact that you
have
On 12/07/2009 01:18 AM, Arc Riley wrote:
+1 on comcast business class being awful.
I don't have experience with them in NH
I'm told it varies by the part of the state, but here in Lebanon the
service and support is excellent and the line has been perfect and
amazingly fast. I'm paying for
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:01:33 -0500
Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote:
Are there any alternatives to FairPoint for internet + phone line in
Nashua? We're far enough away from Main Street to miss out on the
free
Update: Our DSL service has been restored and now works as before.
There were apparently multiple problems on FairPoint's end, but we
also had some mis-communications internally (again, all-volunteer
organization, no regular business hours).
Thanks for all the helpful suggestions. The mobile
Peter Dobratz wrote:
I help out with some of the technology stuff at a Nashua non-profit,
and we're having a frustrating experience getting our DSL to work
again with FairPoint (*see below for the whole story).
snip
I am in Nashua and the problem with fairpoint that you described is
Ben Scott wrote:
... taking the liberty to add themselves user accounts with sudo access ...
This I have trouble believing, just because none of the pole monkeys
they've sent out seemed to quite know what to do with a computer at
all. Indeed, things such as the English language often
I've been a Comcast customer since they bought ATTBI, and have dealt
with all sorts of customer service people. A number of years ago I had
an ATTBI tech misinstall a cable amplifier. But, since Comcast took
over, I have had better techs as well as customer service people. Since
the problem he
It's seems that some here still believe VOIP is not aot a good
alternative to having a POTS line.
I've run a consulting biz, and my home phone service, for 5 years on
pure VOIP. I have 59s reliability, and,
in general is costs much less than the bundled services provided by
broadband companies.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:59 AM, dan d...@rastech.com wrote:
When I say I was impressed with Comcast's support, it was in
comparison to my expectations, which were fairly low.
Yah, that's really where I'm coming from. Comcast customer service
sucks. Sometimes it sucks a lot. So it's a
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Gerry Hull ge...@telosity.com wrote:
Though this lowers my reliability, I still contend
it's 59s because of backups to cell, etc.
Er, if it's down, it's down. That's what counts. The fact that you
have alternatives don't mean it isn't down.
You haven't
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote:
Are there any alternatives to FairPoint for internet + phone line in
Nashua? We're far enough away from Main Street to miss out on the
free Wi-Fi.
Too bad TDS doesn't serve Nashua. Kinda funny that out here in the
stick,
I help out with some of the technology stuff at a Nashua non-profit,
and we're having a frustrating experience getting our DSL to work
again with FairPoint (*see below for the whole story).
For one phone line + voicemail + DSL, I think it's about $75/month.
Are there any alternatives to
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote:
Are there any alternatives to FairPoint for internet + phone line in
Nashua?
Your choices are fundamentally the phone company and the cable
company. In Nashua, that means FairPoint and Comcast. Both suck
when it comes to
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote:
Are there any alternatives to FairPoint for internet + phone line in
Nashua?
Your choices are fundamentally the phone company and the cable
company. In Nashua, that means
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
There's also satellite ...
Ack-pfft!! I wouldn't use satellite Internet if you gave it to me
for free. 1.5 second RTT sucks wet farts out of dead pigeons. (That
is not a typo. 1.5 seconds. 1500 ms.) I think
Isn't MV available in Nashua? (mv.com)
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Arc Riley wrote:
Isn't MV available in Nashua? (mv.com)
Yes. MV is available in Nashua and is a wonderful vendor to work with. I
have been very happy with them for literally decades.
The last mile portion is still FairPoint, of course. At least MV would
be the buffer to FairPoint, though
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:55 AM, dan d...@rastech.com wrote:
Yes. MV is available in Nashua and is a wonderful vendor to work with. I
have been very happy with them for literally decades.
MV donates the co-lo for the GNHLUG server that provides this
mailing list. They've consistently
+1 on comcast business class being awful.
I don't have experience with them in NH, but elsewhere I've had nothing but
bad experiences with them in other states; ie, moving static subnet blocks
we were paying good money for without warning, business class cable modems
blowing out in lightning
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com wrote:
+1 on comcast business class being awful.
Er, messages in thread so far seem to suggest people are saying
they're marginally okay. Not great, but not awful.
business class cable modems blowing out in lightning storms
I
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