[NTLUG:Discuss] High speed access.

Sun Mar 9 22:30:50 CST 2003

I don't have a domain, but I don't think the email would be 
an issue now.

I don't think they aren't as strict as they once were.  I had heard 
that at one point they would not even let you put a non-Verizon
domain as a <Reply-To>.  I wouldn't have been able to live with that.
I work out of a home office and I am one of the few employees that
isn't either on site or on a site on the WAN, so they didn't want
to poke a couple of holes in the firewall just for me. (And I surely
didn't want to do email through Citrix!)  

So the company forwards my email to me, and I send out company email 
through a Verizon account.  The "Received:" line does include the
Verizon email address, but all of the important fields show the
business address.  They probably started allowing this when they
started requiring SMTP Auth.

Rick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of Kenneth Loafman
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 10:28 AM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] High speed access.
> 
> 
> 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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