[ale] Inexpensive broadband recommendations

[da Black Baron]

On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 17:29, Geoffrey wrote:
> Douglas Bridges wrote:
> > I am moving back to the Sandy Springs area and I was wondering if people had 
> > recommendations for (relatively) inexpensive broadband connections.
> 
> You'll probably get a lot of recommendations for Bellsouth, but I'd stay 
> away from the local monopoly.  The do pppoe, they are not Linux friendly 
> and they are not willing to work with you on different setups.  I've 
> been very pleased with Speedfactory and I've been with them for over a 
> year now.
 
This is true- that bellsouth isn't linux-competent. I wouldn't say they
were unfriendly to it, since you get a linux ppoe distro on their
install CD's- just don't expect their tech-support people to be able to
do anything for you.  I haven't found this to be much  of a problem,
since I basically know the ins-and-outs of pppoe on linux and don't
really *need* any tech-geeks at hellsouth teaching me how to use it (the
docs on the CD distro are good enough- and there's always Roaring
Penguin).  

Most problems I've had with my bellsouth connection (and those haven't
been many- perhaps 2 episodes in the last 3 years) have been on their
end- and once you convince the tech people that you're competent enough
to know what you're doing on your end, you can generally get them to do
the line-check, etc. on their end which has always resolved whatever
problem I've had with my connection.  

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