On 2008-02-12, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've been waiting and waiting and waiting forever for DSL to >> come to my neighborhood just so that I can switch to a decent >> provider and rid myself of this nonsense. > > Don't assume DSL will be better. They often block ports too > (as you said, it's well within their service agreement to do > so, but I still think it sucks).
At least 'round here you have far more ISP choices with DSL. With cable all you get is a choice between 2-3 of the national "send us your money and shut up" ISPs. With DSL you can pick from at least a dozen and a couple of them are top notch local firms run by geeks for geeks. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! ... I don't like at FRANK SINATRA or his visi.com CHILDREN. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list