[NTLUG:Discuss] DSL Providers

[Wes Mills]

If you are in Bell territory, good luck.  You might consider Jump.net,
but I've not heard about them in awhile.  If you have the green to do
so, perhaps a T1 would suit your fancy?  (I work for neither of the
following two companies)  August.net runs them in Bell land for
$295/month to start, and Texas.net starts at $245.  Seems to me that
many consumer-level DSL providers are cracking down very hard on it
being *consumer*-level, no fancy stuff.

On the other hand, if you can't find a DSL provider who does this, and
don't want a T1, try colocation of a server.  I recommend, again,
August.net or Tacni.net.

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Goldblatt [mailto:aaron at goldblatt.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 10:57 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] DSL Providers


A somewhat related question to the topic of late:

I've had cable with Charter/@Home, and I steadfastly refuse to go back.

Their billing practices annoy me.

I switched from cable to SWBell's DSL service in April, 2000.  I was
wildly 
satisfied with the service, and experienced limited downtime.  The down
side, 
however, was cost.  I was paying on the order of $180/mo for two POTS
lines, 
the DSL service, and five static IP addresses.

About a month ago, I jumped from SWBell to Sprint's ION service, and
have 
managed to cut my monthly bill in half.  The only down side is that I am
now 
restricted to one IP address.

All well and good, except that today my wife (a Sprint employee) called
me 
from work to tell me that Sprint is killing ION and disconnecting the
network.

Does someone know of a coherent comparative list ... or even a list
without 
comparison ... of DSL providers still operating in Fort Worth?
Important 
features for me are:

- Availability of static IP address.  PPPoE is not acceptable.
- Low-volume server permission.  I don't expect the provider to provide 
support for my servers, or offer backup MX reception or DNS service, as
I can 
get that elsewhere.  I simply want to be left alone when I turn up my
mail 
server for goldblatt.net.
- Price is important, but less important than the previous two items.

Thanks.

ag
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