> > Is ADSL available from ma bell in Austin now?
> > That would be superphat.
Prices are pretty reasonable. For the low end service (downstream max of 1.5Mb,
upstream max of 128Kb) it's $100 setup plus $70/month. Don't forget a DSL line does
both voice and data. If you sign a 1 or 3 year contract, waive the setup and it
comes down to either $40 or $50 a month. Granted, cable modems have the potential
to surpass this bandwidth, but bear in mind cable modems are shared and dynamic.
This is a private connection with a static IP. You can host whatever you want on
it. I don't have any info on ISPs as of yet but I'll post some if people are
interested. The service should work fine under Linux, from SWB you can buy the DSL
modem, a NIC, and the splitter for $200. So there may be some custom scripts which
need writing (as there were with RR) but from a hardware standpoint it should work.
(Thanks to Cheng Zhou for pointing that out).
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