[ale] Screwed by PPP0E

[Geoffrey]

Raylynn Knight wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 08:47 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
>>I came into my remote office today to discover that Speedfactory had
>>switched me over to PPPOE.  Apparently they sent one of my partners an
>>email and I've not received it.  This causes pain because the only
>>reason why I've not switched to PPPOE and their faster speed before was
>>because I could not afford the downtime. 
>>
>>They told me that everyone was forced to go to PPPOE.  Is this true? 
>>What about Speakeasy.  
>>
>>I will add this. <flamebait>The only reason I've not switched to
>>BS</flamebait> is because of the level of support I get from these
>>guys.  They helped me setup PPPOE on Linux twice.  BS would say "Linux
>>is not supported".  They've returned my calls and have called me back
>>when things began working again.  Now since I'm forced to go  PPPOE my
>>only thing keeping me with SF is the support.  Does SE force PPPOE?  
>>
>>Chris
>>
> 
> I'm with speedfactory and I don't have PPPOE.  Perhaps its because I pay
> for extra static IP addresses.

This is likely true.  Care to share what you're paying and what your 
speed is?

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Until later, Geoffrey