Last month I asked about local DSL options. Thanks to everyone who
answered me, that helped quite a bit. Now the DSL saga is continuing,
and I'm hoping to be able to come up with something substantial during
the next few days.
We glanced briefly at SWB, though I strongly advised my roommates
against it. Ignoring its bad reputation, the deal seemed ok, though we
were a bit concerned by the fact that SWB apparently doesn't provide
an ISP, and I think I heard Prodigy mentioned in one of the deluge of
radio ads. If I already have web/SMTP/NNTP servers, would I need
anything other than a working IP?
Telocity/DirectTV looked good. They'd send us a DSL modem, and our
first 3 months were only $20/month. After a day or so though, they
called and informed us that they couldn't offer us DSL, which was
frustrating.
As previously stated, jump.net is no longer offering DSL, which is
unfortunate since I'd originally been planning to go with them for the
past year.
constant.com is mentioned at dslreports.com, but the hardware fee is
$275 + $50/month. If I'd be having the same roommates for a few years
and living in the same location, this might be a good deal, but the
roommates are graduating and we may switch complexes after the lease
expires, so this isn't a good option.
My roommates want to go with RR, buy basic cable (two of us aren't big
TV people), but my only concern is the vague mutterings I've heard
about RR disallowing servers. I haven't read the TOS, is this true? Is
it somehow possible to order a "delux" account or something which
allows servers? I'm running zope locally and using it to serve my
site, hosting my own domains, and I really don't want to pay someone
to do what I can in my spare time.
Are there any other DSL providers which I may have missed? I'm
considering just biting the bullet and going with SWB anyway, has
anyone had a good/semi-good experience with these guys? Can I just
ignore the prodigy subscription and use UT's mail/news servers?
Thanks.
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