From owner-freebsd-isp Sun May 7 11: 4:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 608) id 7B71337BB58; Sun, 7 May 2000 11:04:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" To: jackson@msrce.howard.edu Cc: gary@tbe.net, spork@super-g.com, matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <200005051532.KAA13871@MushMouth.AaronJackson.com> (message from Aaron Jackson on Fri, 5 May 2000 10:32:55 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: freebsd hosting. Message-Id: <20000507180439.7B71337BB58@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 11:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am also in the Washington DC area. I have been using ADSL from BellAtlantic for several months now. the only problem, is ocassional outages, these can last a day. FreeBSD pppoe works wonderfully (see http://people.freebsd.org/~jmb). jmb > > I live in the Washington, DC area and I had Bell > Atlantic ADSL service and I hated it. It was not stable > and the pppoe implementation irritated the hell out of > me, some of my apps weren't compatible with the MACpoet > driver and development on a pppoe driver for OpenBSD > (my firewall OS of choice) is a little behind. Bell > Atlantic used to have static ips, which was nice, but > they got rid of that a few months ago. I ordered DSL > service from Covad (capu.net ISP) in March 2000, and by > March 30, 2000 it was installed. During the > three week I was waiting for the DSL to be > installed, capu.net continuously updated me on my order > status, to the point where it became annoying. There > were a few installation problems, but my ISP credited an > extra month to my account, so I was satisfied how things > were handled. I wouldn't suggest anybody use Bell > Atlantic ADSL unless they had to, while I have been > satisfied by the service COVAD/capu.net have provided > me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message