Unfortunately for me, neither Verizon FIOS nor Speakeasy are available at my current address. Sigh.
I'll think of something. Really, I will...... Hopefully it won't involve too much hacking. I already have some ideas, but those are pretty crazy, I have to admit. There must be a better solution. On 7/1/05, Russ Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's why I said Verizon FIOS, not DSL. I don't see how people get good DSL > deals, considering everywhere I check it's expensive as all hell. FIOS' > 15mbit/2mbit for $49.99 is a good deal. Beats Comcasts 4mbit/42KB? And DSL > (unless you went forward in time and got DSL2) > -Russ > > -----Original Message----- > From: UM Linux User's Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Nick Cummings > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 3:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] Comcast > > 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 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> -Randy Baden > >> AIM: Randofu > >> Cell: 301-751-5114 > > > -- -Randy Baden AIM: Randofu Cell: 301-751-5114
