On December 19, 2002 02:23 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: > Dear friends, > > I have recently had the worst of times with my ISP who also is my main > internet address provider (I use Hotmail, alas, only for my public messages > since it is saturated with spam anyway). Ideally, I would look for a > company in the USA, with either state-wide local numbers, or an 800 number > to call, which would care about its customers and who at least have some > knowledge about Linux (the big ones all want us to run Win32 software on > our machines). > > Other considerations are, of course, ease of connection, downtime, etc. > > Is anybody on this list actually happy with his ISP and mail server > provider? If yes, please help me out with this! > > Also, I prefer not to go with a company which provides email as a > "sideorder" for long-distance or local telephone service. > > While I cannot afford to pay much, I use dial-up anyway, I certainly would > be willing to pay for good quality. > > I was told that Earthlink is ok. Does anybody know? > > Finally, it would be ideal to find a company which is strongly pro-Linux or > somehow linked with the linux community. > > Am I dreaming, > > Cheers, > > Andrei
It's hard to tell what ISP's users running GNU/Linux are getting "support" from, but for overall ratings it's hard to beat the user's ratings at: http://www.dslreports.com/ (not just for DSL) For ISP ratings in general I usually tell people to start at a site such as: http://www.etestinglabs.com/services/ibs/usratings.asp?visitor=X or just pick one in your area (Florida?) and "Google" them. :-) You'd be surprised how many complaints/kudos are available on newsgroups and various mailing list archives. As an aside I've been fairly well satisfied with the service I get from my ISP but it would be a bit too far for you methinks. ;-) Good luck and HTH. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself. -- Frank Herbert, "Chapterhouse: Dune"
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