ISPs

[Joshua Bergland]

I am a happy RoadRunner user myself, works great, and I am using 
Deerfield's Dns2Go service to forward my domain name to whatever IP 
address my machine happens to be at the moment... With the 2Mb+ 
connection I get in my area of town (Shawnee), its great...

One problem that I have is that RR's DNS servers are very flaky at 
times, so you will want to use some other ones as backup (actually, 
anyone know how to do that on my RedHat 7.2 machine, seems whatever DHCP 
gets is what is used, but I want to override them with a couple of 
stable puclic ones...)

Josh Bergland

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>>From a couple of replies:
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>"planet kc is linux friendly and runs about 10-15 month for dial-up."
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>"We have training in a number of technologies, Including Linux."
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>This worries me - I'm looking for people who support TCP/IP over dial-up
>PPP, not Linux.  There should be nothing at their end that cares one whit
>whether I'm running Windows or Linux or Sega or a System 3090 on this end.
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>I _think_ what they're trying to say is that their Customer Support techs
>won't hang up on you if you say the "L" word, and/or that they don't require
>a proprietary pre-packaged dialer/browser for access - which is good.  But
>for proprietary interfaces, AOL is the hands-down winner, and I can handle
>the tech support myself as long as the ISP keeps the servers up.
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>I guess the things I'm looking for are reliable connections and reasonable
>price.  Reliable email would be nice, especially if they had good spam
>filtering, but most of the people I know have learned to keep their primary
>email and their ISP separate.  It would be nice if I could get timely and
>honest answers when the gateway routers crash, but that's dreamin'.
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>Thanks for the advice so far.  I'll let y'all know how the search comes out.
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