RE: [Wlug] Cable or Good DSL ISP's
Hey, when my point of reference was a 56k modem that got a sustained
throughput of 5kb a second, crappy DSL will always be better than great
modem service.
I agree that the PPPoE stuff is crap. As for the NAT stuff, I'm using a
netgear RP114 that provides DHCP/NAT/PPPoE plus it does port forwarding of
ssh to my linux box and I'm yet to have a problem.
Though as always, don't call the tech support, you'd have better luck
jabbing a chopstick in your eye.
As for Clint's comment, my parents have charter and haven't had a problem
except that now everybody has charter in the neighborhood it gets useless
from around 7pm to 9pm. So its stable, but the speed fluctuates greatly.
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles R . Anderson [mailto:cra@WPI.EDU]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:00 AM
To: wlug@mail.wlug.org
Subject: Re: [Wlug] Cable or Good DSL ISP's
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:26:15AM -0500, Keller, Tim wrote:
Tim.Keller> I've had really good luck with Verizon DSL (get about 70-80k a
second + no
Tim.Keller> down time). In Worcester you might want to check out Speakeasy.
A couple
Tim.Keller> people in WLUG use them and are happy.
Yuck. Verizon uses PPPoE, a broken-by-design protocol (sort of like
PPTP, which is also broken by design). You will have performance
problems if you try to use NAT with PPPoE due to the reduced MTU.
I also highly recommend Speakeasy. They are best-of-breed as far as DSL
companies go.
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Charles R. Anderson
Hello, Charter has been good.. in the last year I've had only one major outage. The 3Com modem was no good, I purchased the modem instead of "renting" one.. they replaced it for free with a new Motorola modem! As others has said.. e-mail customer service is non-existant. On the phone.. I never waited long. Must have been lucky on that! Speed.. has been good, I haven't seen any problems. The one problem I do have is the TOS doesn't allow servers of any kind, if you want that, you need a business account. Charter also blocks port 80 (http) now. Rob rmahlert@charter.net webmaster@atari-users.net
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