[NTLUG:Discuss] Moving to the area

[MadHat]

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 08:23, Rev. wRy wrote:
> Tim Riker wrote:
> 
> > Now that would let the cat out of the bag wouldn't it? ;-)
> 
> Curiosity and all. ;)
> 
> > Are you using "Yahoo" as the ISP then? Any catches? Are there other 
> > options?
> 
> I actually guess I am, but I've had this line for about 2 years - long 
> before the Yahoo/SWB partnership.
> 

The partnership is just for content and hosting of the mail, not with
the actual service itself.

> I've had no problems running servers (mail/ssh/web/ftp) and a cursory 
> glance at their options page shows this, which is probably more to your 
> liking:
> 
> Deluxe - S Package
> 768Kbps-1.5Mbps Down
> 256Kbps Up
> 5 Static
> $79.95/mo
> 

This is what I have at home, but they only charge me $75.  I have had
SBC DSL for about 7 months now and have had 0 outages.  Can't say as
much for the ATTBI I had before, but as always YMMV.

> > What's the latency? Here's a quick "mtr av.com" from here:
> And from here:
> 
> pogox.org                         Mon Mar 10 08:06:49 2003
> Keys:  D - Display mode    R - Restart statistics    Q - Quit
>                                           Packets               Pings
> Hostname      
> 16. altavista.com                    0%   12   12    78   65   73   78
> 

My times are the same or better.  I am in Downtown Dallas now though.

> [note: above edited for formatting purposes only]
> 
> > Will they do RDNS for you?
> 
> I *want* to say it's automagically created when you get your block - I 
> could be wrong on that though.  I haven't had to make a call to support 
> since long before yahoo came into the picture, so I'm not sure how clued 
> in their techs are now, but in the past (while they didn't officially 
> support *nix) I had no problems finding techs with clues.
> 

I was not able to get them to set rdns, but all I did was ask when they
were setting it up and I didn't push to hard at the time.  I didn't care
enough.  I know they will for business class, but not sure for
residential.

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`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here...'
   -- Lewis Carroll - _Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland_