[wellylug] dialup ISP suggestions?

Simon . ahlee_youp at hotmail.com
Mon Aug 23 17:22:21 NZST 2004


Too true.

I was having trouble connecting to a couple of sites, which had a common 
server along the trace route, where packets were just not returning back. I 
found a forum thread saying that xtra was having trouble getting to some 
sites, and that I should let them know about it. I sent xtra copious amounts 
of linux generated info (tcptraceroute, ping logs, etc.), and then still 
replied with the canned "check your windows explorer security settings". 
Amazing!

Simon Antliff

>From: jumbophut <jumbophut at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
>To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
>Subject: Re: [wellylug] dialup ISP suggestions?
>Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:06:56 +1200
>
>On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:57:36 +1200, Donald Gordon wrote:
> > I'm looking for something that's flat-rate (and doesn't start kicking
> > you off and not letting you on for fifteen minutes after you've reached
> > some arbitary usage limit, as some ISPs seem to do these days), doesn't
> > produce too many busy signals, isn't horrendously expensive, and
> > (ideally) is provided by an ISP which peers on the WIX.
> >
>
>Has anybody come across an ISP that, when you call to report a fault,
>doesn't tell you to go away when you explain that you run Linux?  With
>Xtra, I go through the motions of _pretending_ I am checking my
>Windows settings, rebooting etc., just to keep the monkey on the other
>end happy.
>
>--
>Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, 
>/l at omcgtjuba.phi/')
>
>
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