Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, dman wrote: > The suits are probably the only ones who would actually pay for > someone to tell them they don't know what they're doing :-). The rest > of us come here and get your support for free ;-). I was on the end of an escallations queue that the local cable companies

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 04:22:28PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: ... | [1] I am starting to doubt if there's anybody but suits in the bay area, | from the people that make it to Portland I meet, my trip to Redwood City | and my experiance taking tech support calls, this seems unlikely that |

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
all: i heartly agree with noah. i too am a speakeasy customer after my former isp (verio) attempted to dump me onto earthlink.net (huh???). anyway, customer satisfaction has been nothing short of excellent. i am running two dns servers at home with the two ip's furnished by speakeasy. i am in t

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, Here is an [EMAIL PROTECTED] customer who was moved to new ATTBI.COM > service in Northern California. New terms of service states additional > "no-Server" policy. Yuck !!. (I never signed it but sent to me when > change happened. So it is legally

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Adam Majer wrote: > Yes they do, _but_ it's not trully static and if you want trully static you > need > to play $60 for biz cable and $20 for static - that about US$50/mo. The point is it won't be changing often enough for it to not count as static, unless you live in Illin

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:41:36PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > Cable setup is pretty straightforward. I used to do tech support for > @Home before I got laid off and got a better paying job as a security > guard. Other than the dying @Home network, I don't think there's a > cable network

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Here is an [EMAIL PROTECTED] customer who was moved to new ATTBI.COM service in Northern California. New terms of service states additional "no-Server" policy. Yuck !!. (I never signed it but sent to me when change happened. So it is legally not binding.) On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:41:36P

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > dsl - the local telco is verizon. if you get their residential package, > i'm pretty sure they use pppoe on adsl... At least in the Portland, Oregon area they do not use PPPoE (though even though they got the "don't use PPPoE" idea right, it doesn't s

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:25:54AM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I'm moving to NYC in the next couple of weeks to start a new job. Can anyone > provide recommendations for ISPs that will allow me to run a few debian boxes > (and one iMac) with a minimum of hassle? I'm looking to avoid ISPs that

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hi kurt, in the new jersey area... well, for dial-up, i'm not sure. for broadband: dsl - the local telco is verizon. if you get their residential package, i'm pretty sure they use pppoe on adsl... which the roaring penguin softare should work fine provided your kernel supports it. their buisiness

debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread Kurt Lieber
I'm moving to NYC in the next couple of weeks to start a new job. Can anyone provide recommendations for ISPs that will allow me to run a few debian boxes (and one iMac) with a minimum of hassle? I'm looking to avoid ISPs that require proprietary software or funky configs just to get them to w