[ale] OT: Well some of it. THE PAIN OF DIAL-UP

[Greg]

What about cable ??
Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Adrin
> Story
> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 11:45 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] OT: Well some of it. THE PAIN OF DIAL-UP
> 
> 
> Well,  MY DSL is with earthsink is down again.  Tech support wants me to 
> call Bellsouth to do a NID check and then call them back once that is 
> done.   I have been down for a week now.   I was trying to set up my 
> Linux box to do some shared internet access over dailup.  Yeah, I know 
> SLOW.    but I can't remember the right iptable commands.   I can't get 
> forwarding to work.  HELP!!
> 
> 
> Now the real pain.  I am 16000+ feet from the C.O.   Speakeasy can't 
> provide me with aDSL broadband.  I was so looking forward to 1.5/384.  I 
> didn't even care that it was going to cost more. The service and 
> features were more than make up for it.  So far, I have only been 
> offered, (online) the T1 or IDSL.   T1 cost WAY to much and the IDSL is 
> only 144 Kbps.  I hope they come up with something better  or a good 
> offer on a house next to the C.O.
> 
> Adrin S.
> P.S.  You know I could have used someones name on the list as a 
> referal.  Would have been good beer money
> 
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