Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 10:32:55 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Jackson <jackson@msrce.howard.edu> To: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> Cc: spork <spork@super-g.com>, Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, FreeBSD-ISP <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: freebsd hosting. Message-ID: <200005051532.KAA13871@MushMouth.AaronJackson.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005051023420.63612-100000@thud.tbe.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005051023420.63612-100000@thud.tbe.net>
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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. Quoting "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net>: > Dunno 'bout that... I was recently working for the provider currently > hosting dslreports.com... and we have been dealing with Covad for way too > long... The incompetency at some of these companies, along with the > in-fighting with Bell over installations and what not is unbelieveable. I > ordered DSL for my fiancee back in October, 99, and it finally got > installed on New Year's Eve... however, I am still unable to pass traffic > over it, even now in May, 2000... I've had Covad out to the house several > times already, and It Just Doesn't Work (and she's only 1/2 mile from the > CO) > > At least here in Northern NJ/NYC area, the Covad service is horrid... and > Flashcom isn't doing well either... Friend of mine ordered DSL from > Flashcom, and didn't even get a confirmation call back in almost 7 > weeks. He called up, cancelled, and then called Bell Atl. and had his > DSL up in 2 weeks. Granted, he has ADSL, and it's only costing him $40, > but. > > And, at least where I am, I am roughly 18,250 feet away from my CO, and > that means I'm 250 feet too far, even for IDSL... As far as Covad is > concerned, that is too far for service. I am able to get ISDN, so the > correlation to ISDN and IDSL being able to get both is not entiirely true > (at least in my case). YMMV. > > I think the providers out West, i.e. in PacBell territory and even US > Worst from what I've heard from people in our other offices, are much > better at giving good DSL service, as they were the ones who really > developed it and deployed it first, so they've had the time to work some > of the bugs out. > > In correlation, I believe T1's are horridly expensive out West also, so > DSL, even if there is a slight downtime, is much more cost-effective than > a PTP or Frame circuit (this is my own guess, not based on any hard > evidence). > > Honestly, we sell out our rack space, and around here, the most common > thing that we recommend to our customers is the following: Put whatever > servers you need critical uptime on in the rack, that way they get > guaranteed speed and uptime, and if you want good speed at home, get > either ISDN or DSL if available. The cost works out to about $400/month > for both the rack and the DSL, and you get the best of both worlds... have > your development servers in house on the DSL so you can test, and put your > production environment on a well-connected backbone co-located at a local > provider. > > DSL looks like the next wave of dedicated service, but at least here in > the Tri-State area, they have a lot of work to do before it can even come > close to comparing with dedicated Frame and PTP circuite... > > Just another $.02... ;) > > -Gary > > On Fri, 5 May 2000, spork wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2 May 2000, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > > > > [...] > > > DSL is still in its infancy, and if you need uptime, you still won't > get > > > it reliably yet. Too many bugs to still work out. > > > > Heh. He's in Bell Atlantic territory. We're seeing better reliability > on > > our SDSL lines than our point-to-point T's. The reliability thing is FUD > > from RBOCs worried about lost T1 revenue. > > > > Charles > > > > > Just my $.02, I'll shut up now... ;) > > > > > > -Gary > > > > > > On Tue, 2 May 2000, Matt Heckaman wrote: > > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > I'm sorry, I deleted the original message before thinking, but > revived a > > > > bit from scrollback: > > > > > > > > > worried about it e-mail to be separated for the different domains. > I know > > > > > the same user names are used on the different domains. > > > > > > > > I do this nicely for > 30 domains with qmail, as for as I'm concerned > it's > > > > the only way to do email virtual hosting =) > > > > > > > > Matt Heckaman > > > > matt@arpa.mail.net > > > > http://www.lucida.qc.ca > > > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD) > > > > Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp > > > > > > > > iD8DBQE5D17LdMMtMcA1U5ARAsFeAKC9+0/DpeKWknrQjzmnCNiLt3Mh 2wCguIPR > > > > 6wHx3QePQhOEORrViKEJNRQ= > > > > =qZEX > > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > "You don't know what you don't know until you know that you don't know it." -- Me To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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