I am getting a little frustrated with RR, myself. There fire wall only half
works, to block outgoing webservers. Like you mention, I am only interested
in playing around with some of the concepts at home... nothing serious.
Last time I checked, to upgrade to a "business" class, was $80/month. To
get a static ip, another $80 a month. Several DSL providers I have been
researching (on www.dslreports.com and other places) are www.directtvdsl.com
and www.ij.net Both have had good reviews, and seem technically savy.
Pete
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Moen" <mattlists@younicks.org>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:18 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Linux friendly DSL providers
> I'm concerned about what Todd Robinson said in a previous thread about
> Time Warner being a pain about running things like mail servers from
> your RR connection. Essentially, he said that Time Warner makes a deal
> about running any sort of server and is quick to send out nastygrams to
> "violators." I'm /not/ interested in running an ISP from my house. I
> merely prefer taking care of my own mail, and running two-bit, low
> bandwidth web pages from my connection. Heavy upstream traffic days for
> me are be about 100MB, and they're rare. Downstream traffic is similar.
>
> I'm guessing what's really going on here with Time Warner is they're
> attempting to strong-arm people to shell out an extra $70 or so for
> commercial service. I'm not running a business from this, and I'm
> really not interested in shelling out that much for minimal gains.
> I might be willing to pay $10 or $15 extra for a static IP, but not $70.
> That's ridiculous.
>
> So, if Time Warner is going to give me grief for running harmless
> services over their network, what are my other options? Are there any
> local DSL providers who are Linux friendly? By "friendly" I'm not
> expecting support...just someone who doesn't say "Oh, you can't use that
> with our service." Additionally, by "friendly" I mean that so long as
> you're not wasting their time, you can actually contact the network
admins.
> Such ISP's are rare, but they do exist. (Take panix.com for example.)
> Is there such a creature in the Tampa Bay area?
>
>
> --
> Matthew Moen
>
> Some people say Linux is like a bicycle without its' training wheels.
> By contrast, not only does Microsoft Windows have training wheels,
> but often it's missing a bicycle seat.
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