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eric On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Charlie wrote: > 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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