[ale] broadband ISP

[Cornelis van Dijk]

Thanks for your reply.

Say $50.- per month.

I guess I knew that once a connection is up most isp are Linux
friendly. But that is the problem: the setup of the modem or whatever
it is called. I got some negatives and puzzled faces from att people
when I told them that I need a Linux friendly connection.  I am in the
Lilburn-Stone Mountain area and, believe it or not, I still have a
dial-up (by choice) like millions of people across this country.

Cor

On 3/18/14, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 12:33 -0400, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Anyone have a recommendation for an affordable Linux friendly broadband
>> ISP?
>
> Not sure I understand.  I haven't run into any (lately) that were Linux
> un-friendly.  I run into a few support noobs that don't know how to
> speel leenoocks but none that are really anti-linux.  Just don't expect
> them to hold your hand while you try and figure out how to install
> Gentoo on your PC.
>
> I'm with AT&T UVerse and my son, Scott, is with Comcast.  AT&T pissed me
> off the other day when protocol 41 (IPv6) stopped working after a
> gateway update but I think that's because they're preparing to support
> IPv6 natively (What was that?  The sound of Jingle Bells in Hell???).
> So I just had to encrypt the tunnel.  The technician I talked to even
> mentioned that my RG (Residential Gateway) was out of day and shipped me
> a new one.  No big deal.  Nothing to do with Linux.  Both are completely
> Linux compatible.
>
> My brother, Steve, is with Charter.  He hasn't had any problems with
> Charter and Linux.
>
> In fact, I haven't heard of anyone really having any real "problems"
> with a particlular ISP and Linux other than they are not going to
> provide Linux technical support.
>
> You say "affordable".  You don't define what "affordable" is or where
> you are talking.  You want "cheap" and "fast", try Europe.  What I have
> and Scott has is affordable by either of us.  Your mileage may vary.
>
>> TIA
>> Cor van Dijk
>
>
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