George Emigh who runs Access Unlimited, is a DSL provider. I'm not sure
what his phone number is, but you could always check out the phone book.
He is a huge Linux guy, and I'm sure you'd be happy with his service.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Moen [mailto:mattlists@younicks.org]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:19 PM
To: slug@nks.net
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 MoenSome 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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