[NTLUG:Discuss] DSL Availability / netfilter

[Mark Bickel]

> From: "Rauschuber, Chris" <xrauschu at ti.com>
> Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] DSL Availability / netfilter
> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:49:42 -0600 

> Well, it's actually McCallum between Coit and Meandering Way, just far
> enough from Coit/Campbell to be in Dallas and not Richardson.  I'm gonna
> hold my breath for a few months and see if they put in a new central office.
> If not, maybe I'll shell out the $$ and go with Ricochet or something.
> I just moved there in Novemeber, so I'm stuck for a while : (
> 
> In the meantime, I'm going to setup a dial-on-demand router so that I can
> share my tiny bandwidth between two computers.
> I'm trying to decide whether to stick with ipchains or go with 2.4 and
> netfilter.  Any suggestions?

Have you looked into IDSL availability? Both Covad and Northpoint are
providing this option from some C.O.s. This turned out to be the only
reasonable option for our house, being ~34K feet from the C.O. IDSL
provides 144kb/s up & down over a separate loop (not your POTS line)
which has been qualified for ISDN. So if your location qualifies for
ISDN availability, you may be able to get IDSL. We're using a Flowpoint
144 IDSL router.

Good luck,
Mark.Bickel at ericsson.com