> From: Bryan Samis > > Todd Holt wrote: > > And how would you fell if that restaurant had a sign that said "No > > shirt, no shoes, no service" and you entered wearing a blue shirt, jeans > > and tennis shoes. Then the owner said to you, "Because we noticed that > > most people that rob restaurants are wearing jeans, we decided today not > > to allow anyone wearing jeans to enter. You understand don't you?" > > > > Todd Holt > > Obviously nobody would LIKE it, but it's completely within the store's > rights to do so. If you NEED to go into that store, you'll comply with > their rules. Otherwise, you'll take your business elsewhere.
But, what if you lived in a section of town where EVERYONE was forced to wear blue jeans? One thing to keep in mind is that there are not multiple ISP choices in every area. Even in big cities (ok, we're not that big, but top 50), there can be "small" independent phone exchanges with different rules from the bigger guys. Ours (used to be small, but now #3 in nation, but consists of "small" telephone businesses nationwide) is considered a "small" provider. So, they don't have to play by the rules everyone else does in the state. That can be good -- when ISDN went in, we got it in two days (one of their first installs, we had moved from bellsouth land where it took two months, since more lines had to be run out from the telco). The techie knew less than I did (probably still does on ISDN, have to speak slowly to explain CRC errors to them). And since the setup was giving us fits, I got to go down to the phone rooms (back with the equipment) and help them get it going correctly. After the 3rd line went in on our underground service, they brought out several extra lines 'just in case' (we are at the end of the local phone line) and when a dump truck took out all our lines, they were out in a couple of hours fixing it. Great service. Now, they are offering DSL (finally) and we are in the correct distance range. However, they do not allow you to get DSL without using them as the ISP (which we don't now). Which means, more cost. And you have to let them run the rDNS, rather than doing it yourself. And the internet support guys are several states away (I had this ISP for a personal provider years ago and really don't care to return) while our current ISP is across town. So, any business using their DSL lines get all their outgoing AOL mail blocked (and they have several business, fixed ip plans, none of which would be violated by having your own servers ... only the single/consumer grade connection would do that). So here, there is no other choice of ISP for DSL. And T1's are not available for $300 a month (think more like $800 or more, since anything more than 5 miles away is another phone company PLUS the internet service on top of that charge -- even my large clients don't like paying that and the small companies simply can't). That leaves ISDN (which works ok for our purposes, esp for email service), which is affordable due to it being a flat rate charge in this state and mandated as an available option statewide (old lawsuit against telco's, the state won for once). I would imagine in other areas, the choices can be even more restrictive. Karen --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
