[NTLUG:Discuss] High speed access.

[Kenneth Loafman]

I got away from GTE/Verizon and went with cable so I could use my real 
email address through their servers.  That was a few years ago.  Do they 
still insist that email through their servers end in verizon.net, or can 
I use my own domain name?

I see that yours is still verizon.net, but I don't know if you have your 
own domain or not, so I can't make assumptions.

...Ken


Rick Matthews wrote:
> I'm in Plano (zip 75093) and I've had DSL through Verizon (my local
> phone company) since early in 1997.  Back then you were almost
> forced to use a different company as an ISP, and that's what I did
> until my isp went out of business in 2001.  To reduce the risk of
> experiencing another dying ISP I went with Verizon DSL/Verizon ISP.
> That's when I found out that I had been paying a $20 premium to 
> use a different ISP.
> 
> My service has been excellent.  In the past 3 or 4 years I've probably
> had 4 outages (longer than a minute or so).  One was a flaky DSL
> modem which was identified by an on-site tech and replaced at no
> charge, and the other 3 were system or area-wide (and I learned
> about them during the recording that answers the support number...
> only spent about a minute on the phone).
> 
> I've found my dhcp lease to only be for an hour, but I was reassigned
> the same IP from 5/20/02 until 2/21/03, and I caused it to change
> then.
> 
> I don't know if you mentioned it, but http://www.dslreports.com/ is
> an excellent resource when relocating.
> 
> Hope that helps...
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
>>Behalf Of Tim Riker
>>Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 2:23 AM
>>To: discuss at ntlug.org
>>Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] High speed access.
>>
>>
>>Thanx to all those that replied. It looks like DSL and attbi are the 
>>choices. Anyone with either want to offer comments as to reliability etc?
>>
>>I'm currently on QWest DSL, but I use a different ISP (xmission.com) 
>>cause they are much more reliable and open with updates about network 
>>loads, outages and the causes of them, etc.
>>
>>Are there folks out there with DSL through SBC/Yahoo? What's the cost, 
>>speed, and do they offer static IPs?
>>
>>I'd prefer a higher speed upload than 128k. 256k would be fine. I'd 
>>strongly prefer a routable static IP address. I'll run ssh, smtp, 
>>identd, imaps, pop3s, http, https, bzflag (tcp/udp 5155-5157), dns, and 
>>other standard services. If you are on dynamic IP, how often do they 
>>change? Assume my server will be on 24/7.
>>
>>Are there other DSL ISP choices? They all seem to want a phone number 
>>first, and I don't even have a house or location picked out yet. ;-(
>>
>>TJ says he's on satelite. Unfortunately I don't see myself playing much 
>>BZFlag over a satelite link. ;-)
>>
>>A private message comments about *DSL being spotty in some areas. 
>>Frankly, getting reliable high speed internet access is very high on my 
>>list of requirements for home shopping. With the home I'm in how I 
>>grepped the net for the old home owner's phone number and had the line 
>>pretested by QWest before purchasing. It went something like this:
>>
>>"I'd like to test my line for DSL availability"
>>
>>"ok, what's your phone number?"
>>
>>"801 *** ****"
>>
>>"uh, I show that number as being disconnected"
>>
>>"yes, I know. Please test the line anyway"
>>
>>"you know that you need to have phone service to order DSL, right?"
>>
>>"yes, I know. Please test the line for DSL."
>>
>>"I don't show an active account on this line."
>>
>>(argh!!!) "yes, I know. Please test the line anyway."
>>
>>confused operator: "are you sure?"
>>
>>"yes! please test the line."
>>
>>"the line passes, DSL service should be available".
>>
>>"thank you. Goodbye"
>>
>>I'll probably do the same there. ;-)
>>-- 
>>Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - TimR at Debian.org
>>former Lineo CTO - Tim at Lineo.com - http://www.Lineo.com/
>>BZFlag maintainer - http://BZFlag.org/ - for fun!
>>
>>
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