ISPs (PlanetKC)
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at opus1.com
Mon Oct 22 22:33:34 CDT 2001
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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> >
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