On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:17, Richard Miller wrote: > I saw this announcement, too, from Qwest and I am also considering > switching from Comcast. I have heard that good DSL ISPs are Xmission > and Speakeasy. I would like an ISP that allows me to share the > connection (legally) with other people. It might be worth upgrading > the speed if I shared the connection with other people in the apartment > complex. I've also heard that those two ISPs don't block any ports and > offer static IPs and other hosting-friendly options. There actually > seems to be so many options that I'm not sure what I want. I'm curious > to hear other opinions about Xmission and Speakeasy and issues like web > hosting, connection sharing etc., over DSL.
The best bet for naked DSL is their Qwest.net ISP package which isn't MSN and it isn't speakeasy. It's some internal Qwest DSL that's bare minimal connection (all we really want anyway). No Email server or anything. Just an IP address and gateway. Given this choice I will go with neither Xmission nor Speakeasy. Michael > > Richard Miller > > On Mar 1, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Michael L Torrie wrote: > > > Starting today, Qwest is offering their naked DSL service for $28 per > > month + $7 for the basic qwest.net ISP service (no MSN). This is > > available to ordinary customers, not just business customers. Their > > bandwidth rate is about 1.5 Mb/s download, just under 1 Mb/s upload. > > The big deal here is that for people like me who have no land line, we > > can now have a DSL alternative to Crapcast cable. I am thinking > > seriously about ditching cable modem (even though it is 3 Mb/s > > download) > > and switching to this new DSL service. Besides being cheaper and > > almost > > as fast, the upload/download rates are much more symmetrial which makes > > a lot of difference for things like ssh. > > > > Are any of you thinking of ditching cable as well for this? I'm > > interested in hearing any comments the uugers and pluggers have on > > this. > > > > Michael > > -- > > Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
