ISPs

[Ray Hanes]

Anyone know of a good provider in Olathe. I'm currently on comcast. I don't
know exactly how much they let residintial customers have but this is
considerably slower download than I had with Road Runner when I was in OP

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Bergland" <josh at mrj412.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: ISPs

> 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:
> >
> >"planet kc is linux friendly and runs about 10-15 month for dial-up."
> >
> >"We have training in a number of technologies, Including Linux."
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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'.
> >
> >Thanks for the advice so far.  I'll let y'all know how the search comes
out.
> >
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