ISP Linux support

[Walter Dunz]

I used Commercial Open Systems Inc. in Westport for almost a year before I
went with a cable modem.  They were good, a little pricey, but they used Linux
6.1 on all their PC's.  They let me come down a take a tour of the facility
which I thought was pretty cool.  I don't think I ever got a busy signal or
had a problem that wasn't the result of my fat fingers or failure to
understand or follow the dFAQs and MAN pages!

Now I am using Road Runner, mostly because I am too far from the switch for
DSL - for now.  Just be sure to use a firewall to keep the heathens out of
your system.  I am using a Linksys Cable/DSL router and firewall and it seems
to be doing the job.  

Kendric Beachey <ak at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Mike Coleman wrote:
> ><SFIKE at twa.com> writes:
> >> I was just wondering what some of you are using for Internet Service
Providers
> >> for your Linux boxes at home. I live in Gladstone and plan on going DSL
or
> >> Cable Modem in the next couple of months, but in the mean time I need to
find
> >> a regular dial-up ISP that supports Linux.
> >
> >I'm also in Gladstone.  I was happy with the quality of skynet a year or
two
> >ago, but I dropped them when they started requiring SSNs for new
customers,
> >which I find objectionable.
> >
> >After that, I switched to grapevine.  They're pretty good, but not as good
as
> >skynet was.  On a couple of occasions their main inbound sendmail would
stop
> >over a weekend, and it wouldn't get fixed until Monday.
> >
> >Both have (or had) shell accounts, which are nice.
> 
> I used to use sound.net as my primary ISP, and had decent dialup results
when
> living in OP and in KCMO.  I still have the account, although I'm now
> RoadRunnerized.  I telnet into my shell account (Solaris) at least once
every
> workday, just to check mail.  They haven't had any large-scale problems that
I
> have been aware of for a couple of years now, and when they do have
trouble,
> they are good at getting it fixed fast.  Worth a look, I'd say.
> 
> -- 
> Kendric Beachey
> ak at kc.rr.com
> 
> 
> 
> 

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