ISPs (PlanetKC)

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Sounds good Chris, I'll check 'em out.  This is exactly what I'm looking
for.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Midkiff [mailto:chris at datacaptech.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 12:02 PM
> To: Kclug
> Subject: RE: ISPs (PlanetKC)
> 
> 
> Since the subject came up,
> 
> I used PlanetKC for a couple of years, before I went to 
> Roadrunner.  I know
> several people who still use the service (my recommendation). 
>  It's straight
> TCP/IP dialup, dynamic IP assign (DHCP), static DNS servers.  
> Never had any
> tech support questions to ask them, so I can't speak for 
> their tech support.
> Mail server stability is better than average, though I agree 
> that your ISP
> is not necessarily your best bet for Email.
> 
> They have a reliable service, with very few outages.  They 
> used to have a '2
> Minute Guarantee' that basically said that if you get a busy 
> signal for
> longer than 2 min, the month is on them.  Not sure whether 
> they still do
> this, but I got 2 months free over the course of 2 years by 
> sending them an
> email.  They credited my account, no questions asked.
> 
> As far as dial-up service in KC, I would place PlanetKC at 
> the top of the
> list.  Only problem is that there are no local numbers for 
> other cities.  I
> still have an AT&T dial-up that I use on the road, cause they 
> have local
> numbers about everywhere I go.
> 
> Chris Midkiff
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins at opus1.com]
> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 11:09 AM
> > To: kclug at kclug.org
> > Subject: Re: ISPs
> >
> >
> > 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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