Rapid Systems in Tampa is a Linux friendly DSL Provider.
On Friday 17 May 2002 22:18, you wrote:
> 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?
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