[ale] OT: DSL with Telocity

[Peter Ekstrom]

I signed up with Telocity back in January and had to wait until the end of June
for my connection.  The delay was because Telocity had to rely on Bellsouth to
upgrade my CO...  I've been with them since then though and have no complaints.

> 
> 
> I have heard a lot of good things about Telocity.  I ordered it 117 days
> ago and still haven't been able to connect.  I am canclling on Friday if
> it isn't up, and ordering Road Runner instead.  It's too bad, really,
> because of the linux-friendly nature of Telocity, and the static IP, but I
> had to draw the line when I found that their home wiring department had
> been sitting on my case for 3 weeks.
> 
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Fulton Green wrote:
> 
> > Well, no one seems to have mentioned DSL lately, so I thought I'd break the
> > drought. :)
> > 
> > As of now, I'm able to connect to the Internet from Linux over Telocity DSL.
> > Yeah, I know, big whoop. Here's what differentiates Telocity, best I can tell:
> > 
> > - Support for UNIX machines, in addition to Windows variants and Macs. That's
> > explicit support, none of this "it's rumored that Linux enthusiasts have
> > hacked together a solution" stuff. In theory, any machine with an Ethernet
> > card and an OS that can support DHCP and run a web browser should work with
> > their setup.
> > 
> > - Static address assignment. Even though you're assigned an IP address
> > through DHCP, the server will give you the same address every time. It's
> > advertised as such, actually. That's good news for those of you wanting to
> > run your webserver at home. Or bad news if you totally ph33r 1337 cr4ck3rz.
> > In any case, your gateway/modem also has a static address, but the mfgr.
> > seems to have locked it down pretty tight. It's at least smart enough to
> > close any inbound requests from the outside for port 80 (which, if exposed,
> > might allow someone to reconfig the gateway).
> > 
> > - Unlimited bandwidth. Provided, of course, you're not trying to run a
> > pr0n site from your box. Most DSL services have this, but it seems that at
> > least one service in town limits transfers to 2 GB/month.
> > 
> > OK, that's all I can think of for now ... and no, I don't know if I get a
> > free month if you use my ID when you sign up.
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> 117 days is too long to wait for Telocity and Verizon to hook up my DSL.
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