[wellylug] dialup ISP suggestions?

Peter Jones PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz
Tue Aug 24 08:15:23 NZST 2004


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From: jumbophut [mailto:jumbophut at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 23 August 2004 5:07 p.m.
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Subject: Re: [wellylug] dialup ISP suggestions?


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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Never had to call Paradise to report a fault in the three/four years I've
been connecting to them.
(Never called them for anything)




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