On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:41:11PM -0800, Rick Faber wrote: >Hi > >Sorta new here, and just realized that DSL is available at my house >(pleasant hill). The current quest offer seems pretty reasonable. > >I have two basic questions. Is the quest modem/router (actiontec 1524) >reasonable or should I look for a different one? Any experiences? Hmm >I always tell people it depends on what you want to do, so: I imagine >3 or 4 desktops at home with different OS's, maybe put the wireless >switch to use that I have sitting in my closet with a latop and/or the >desktops. I don't *really* want to have a box to manage as a firewall >unless it's unavoidable. > >
My fellow worker Jay recently got QWest DSL via EFN, and got the Actiontec device; he's been pretty happy with it. It can do what you're describing, simple firewalling and routing, and has slots to add PCCard wireless cards as well. With my own ReachDSL setup, i have the endpoint feeding a little NetGear NATbox that also does wireless. >Secondly, The choice of ISP. (Efn hasn't gotten back to me on cost - >but a year or more ago they were out of my league) Anyone know if >it's possible to use Peak (corvallis) or dsl-only.net or >aracnet(spiritone) out of portland? Or any other local preferences. >It'd be nice to have the static IP and no MSN ties... > EFN's DSL offerings have expanded; the price you were quoted before was probably for the ReachDSL, which requires a proprietary endpoint. Our QWest DSL offerings have our own price, and you also pay some fees for QWest; the 256K service has $27 as our price, and with the other fees you would pay out about $42 per month. -- "That time in Seattle... was a nightmare. I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of UNIX." "Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally those two are mutually exclusive." --Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon" _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
