[NTLUG:Discuss] Best residential connectivity in the Richardson area

[Bug Hunter]

  In this area, distances from central offices preclude DSL for many
users.  Everything is too spread out.


On Wed, 3 May 2000, Wes Bateman wrote:

> Hello all:
> 
> I'll be moving there within a month or so for a new job (working with
> Linux! :) ).  My question is, what are people's opinions of the various
> high speed connection options in the Dallas area?  I read the thread about
> the potential problems with SWBell installation of DSL.
> 
> I have DSL with US WEST here in Phoenix and I LOVE it.  Cable modems here
> are only available in certain areas and the cable company has ridiculous
> policies about not running any services (they even port scan their
> customers looking for accepted connections to 80, 25, etc!  It's
> crazy.  So then people deny all traffic from the netblock of their own ISP
> and other weird things to "hide" their web and mail servers.)  Anyway,
> there is also a high-speed microwave dish setup called
> speedchoice.  Problem is with their two-way service people complain of
> high packet loss like in the 50% range.
>