[ale] www.atlnet.com is great!

[Wandered Inn]

Charles Marcus wrote:
> 
> And their DSL is the same quality - static IP (more than one if you need
> it), $65/month.  They use Bellsouth, so anywhere Bellsouth has DSL
> available, you can use AtlNet instead.
> 
> I only have one complaint - I've been trying to get switched from Bellsouth
> to them for over a YEAR, and Bellsouth just won't give it up.

You might have better luck just terminating your dsl with Bellsouth and
then going with atlnet.   Probably would cost you more $$, although I
don't know.

> 
> Charles
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Byron A
> Jeff
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:13 PM
> To: Kevin Krumwiede
> Cc: Byron A Jeff
> Subject: Re: [ale] Ideas for backup internet connection?
> 
> >
> > $7 a month seems awfully limiting.  Orange County Online (oco.net) is the
> > best ISP I've ever dealt with.  You can call tech support at 4 PM their
> time
> > and get a human being in about two rings.  I think I'm paying $17 a month
> > for unlimited access.  They're based in CA so I assume they're at least
> > covering major metros nationwide.
> 
> Wandered Inn sloved my problem this morning. www.atlnet.com was perfect:
> 
> - $4.95 a month
> - 50 hours a month
> - Static IP. Amazing!
> - Not only Linux friendly, but a Linux shop.
> - 1-800 number for offsite POP. $6 an hour but fine for sproadic use.
> - Got a person on the phone who set me up instantly
> - E-mail and website included.
> - Standard PPP/PAP connectivity so it works with everything.
> 
> I couldn't beat this with a stick! The absolutely single concern that I had
> was that the signup page wasn't on a secured server. But with the customer
> service I got over the phone, who cares?
> 
> Remember this is a backup Internet connection. It's going to be dormant
> except
> for primary outages and travel. It's insurance. So I didn't need unlimited
> connectivity. I just found two occasions this month already when having a
> backup dialup connection was useful. The first was when I was trying to get
> my father's machine together in New Orleans over the Labor Day weekend. He
> has a cable modem, but Linux wouldn't talk to it. Plus a "friend" (note the
> quotes) of his had tried to install 98 in the unused partition. Of course
> 98 was completely unhappy with the 810 MB and wouldn't install
> properly. But it did have time to overwrite the bootloader. So I needed to
> get Linux booted to fix the problem.
> 
> He had been using a free bluelight.com connection, but it would time out
> downloading a boot disk. Yuck. So I connected with my sister's BellSouth
> account, downloaded and got things working. Turns out the Cox's DHCP
> requires
> a certain name for the requesting machine and would refuse unless that name
> is given. My AT&T (same @Home account and modem) uses MAC locking instead.
> So one -I option later on dhcpcd, and we're off and running. I actually was
> able to get the information from @Home customer service without giving away
> that I was connecting with a Linux box. Also she swore up and down that they
> didn't operate from a script. Yeah, Right!
> 
> The second episode was yesterday and the AT&T siesta!
> 
> So that's why the requirements and I found a winner that totally exceeds all
> my expectations so far. Fast, efficient, inexpensive, standard, Linux
> friendly.
> What more can you ask?
> 
> BAJ
> 
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