8/16 What's the best DSL service to get in Berkeley?
\_ related note: since there are all sorts of horror stories about
\_ ass.
\_ explain
\_ It was just vapor lock.
\_ ass
n 1: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit
on [syn: {buttocks}, {arse}, {butt}, {backside}, {bum},
{buns}, {can}, {fundament}, {hindquarters}, {hind end},
{keister}, {posterior}, {prat}, {rear}, {rear end},
{rump}, {stern}, {seat}, {tail}, {tail end}, {tooshie},
{tush}, {bottom}, {behind}, {derriere}, {fanny}]
DSL in general, are there services that do not require that I
sign a year-long agreement? That way if they suck it won't cost
me $$ to change provider?
\_ Let me tell you a story. GTE services my wire. That means
whichever ISP I go to for DSL, the DSL company will have to
talk to GTE. So I choose GTE as my ISP, since GTE is by
default my line provider. GTE has a 30-day money back
guarantee. I canceled in 10 days, got cable modem service,
and have not paid anything to GTE for anything, except
for my regular phone charges.
\_ I like DNAI. I haven't had problems with it yet, and the
customer service, when I've had to use it, is all right. -brg
\_ firstworld
\_ It took over a week to get more IP's, so eventually
I installed debian and set up IP masq. It took two
more weeks after that to get them to point my domain
to my box. Other than that, the service is good, the
support guys (all guys) are friendly. Less Ass, More
Bandwidth.
\_ There are a few women in support at FirstWorld.
They were clued in as well. So far I haven't
had any problems with them (over 8 months now).
\_ I support women in IT, also, though hopefully
we can see more in top-tier pipelines.
\_ We had a few women (tech/managers) in IT/IS
at cisco. They were as good or better than
the men. I'm am not for or against women in
any job. I feel that the best person ought
to be hired for any given role.
\_ This has got to be the single most generic
PC non-statement I have ever read.
\_ Now that I re-read it, it sounds pretty
dumb. What I meant to say was more like
we had talented women in IT/IS at cisco,
and they were generally better (more
knowledgeable/nicer/faster) than the men.
I'm all for getting women like that into
IT field.
\_ Who gives a damn? I just want to
work with/for and manage quality,
talented people. I don't care what
their plumbing looks like.
\_ firstworld is as expensive as PacBell ($79) while supplying
significantly less download BW: 608kb vs 1.5Mb.
\_ perhaps, but what good is the bandwidth if your line
is down for a couple of days at a time. PacBell also
has a shitty data backbone infrastructure, slow news
servers, spotty dns and CLUELESS support (even in the
noc). I'm not sure what service is $79, mine is only
$69 (was $49 but I upgraded to the faster one). |
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