Go with Verizon if you want yet more incompetent, unreliable service. At
least, that would be what I would expect based on my experiences with them
as a phone service provider and the experiences of my friends with Verizon
DSL. I also know that my friend with Verizon DSL was also told they don't
allow customers to run servers (at least with a normal home user account).
Speakeasy, however, is reliable and consistently gets excellent marks for
their customer service. They have absolutely no rules against running a
server than they even OFFICIALLY SUPPORT LINUX, AFAIK (I know that have
instructions for setting up your connection in Linux).
I'll leave it at that except to say that you might be able to save a few
bucks by going with another provider, and you might be able to weasel your
way around the ToS restrictions somewhere else, but why not choose a
company that actually allows users to USE their connections and supports
the Linux community (they support the OS and run an RPMfind mirror)?
Nick
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Russ Kay wrote:
At least where I live DSL is crap. It's slow, and expensive. Now FIOS is
awesome, Verizon's fiber optic packages. Cheap and fast. Just google
Verizon's site for it.
-Russ
-----Original Message-----
From: UM Linux User's Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Thomas Sweeting
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 2:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] Comcast
If DSL is an option for you, try replacing your buggy comcast ISP with a
much more fault tolerant and robust Speakeasy ISP.
http://www.speakeasy.net/
With DSL you will find your internet experience is whiter, brighter and has
flavor crystals. Someone may have once told me that cable modems cause
cancer in laboratory rats. Or maybe they are built by laboratory rats, or
something.
At 02:23 PM 7/1/2005, you wrote:
I didn't tell them that I was running Linux, personally, that was my
roommate.. But we have discovered what the issue really is.
Apparently it violates the ToS to run a web server (which I didn't
know when we signed up for it), so that was the problem. Of course
this has nothing to do with Linux, except that now I have this
excellent photo gallery that I made that I can't even reasonably use
because 1) I practically need root access to install it anywhere, and
2) I have about 2.5 GB of pictures, which doesn't even include the
thumbnails.
GRRR. GRRR GRRR GRRR.
:/
Oh well, on the bright side at least I can view it on my own machine...
On 7/1/05, Gary Ayvazov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
the key is to never ever tell comcast (or any other ISP, really) that
you're running linux. they want to find any reason to blame the crappy
service on you. i cant count how many times my conversation with the
comcast guys went something like this:
me: my service is down.
him: clear your cookies, and then reboot your computer
me: *does absolutely nothing* alright, its rebooting. *service magically
restored*
they dont really like to admit how often it goes down.
-gary
Randolph Baden wrote:
I figure some people on here must have used Comcast at some point, so
I figure I should ask you all for confirmation about what those jerks
tried to tell me today.
We finally had our service working after about a week of down time,
but it recently cut out, and Comcast is claiming that it's because
they don't support Linux. If you ask me this sounds like complete BS.
They said that some of our packets were considered invalid or
something so we were "wallblocked" or something similarly nonsensical.
Since there's no reason that a packet coming from a Linux machine
(especially after going through the router) should be any different
than a packet coming from any other machine, I wanted to know if
anyone else has ever had this problem with Comcast, or else, if some
people have explicitly not had this problem with Comcast and instead
we found yet another incompetent Customer Service rep.
GRRR! And thanks. :/
--
-Randy Baden
AIM: Randofu
Cell: 301-751-5114
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-Randy Baden
AIM: Randofu
Cell: 301-751-5114
