DSL and Linux questions...

[Warren Raquel]

Go with sonic. Main reason being that if something is messed up, they'll
deal with calling and waiting on PacBell instead of you (except when PacBell
has to come by your apartment/house, of course). Plus, they're more
personable. You also get all the goodies with your sonic account. Dial-up if
you need it, wireless downtown Santa Rosa, newsgroups, email accounts,
multiple IP addresses, etc. Good deal.

----- Original Message -----
From: "kory white" <webscribe at lastpioneers.com>
To: <talk at nblug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: DSL and Linux questions...


> Beware beware Pacific Bell....They are the defendant in a class action
suit
> by smaller ISPs(including our own sonic.net) for their DSL policies
(that's
> not totally it but all that will fit in this e-mail). And my personal
> experience with Pacific Bell and DSL warrants their being sued all by
> itself. I signed up through my ISP (sonic.net) and Pacific Bell ignored
that
> fact and charged me for things I never ordered and made my life miserable
> until they finally listened to my ISP and myself and cut me loose.
>
> I have my DSL through sonic.net and it rocks....sonic rocks....sonic is
> cheaper, I believe and I know for sure they actually know something about
> DSL and the internet in general, which is much more than I can say for
> Pacific Bell.
>
> kory
>
> on 1/30/02 7:32 PM, Paul Stagnoli at chesslover at softcom.net wrote:
>
> > Greetings!
> >
> > I have decided to jump on the broadband wagon and get a DSL line from
> > PacBell. Their website reports that the service is compatible with
Linux,
> > but Linux is not supported.
> >
> > My question is how hard is it to set-up DSL with PacBell and get Linux
to
> > talk to the DSL modem. Any ideas, war stories, etc?  Also is there
another
> > DSL provider you would suggest that is cheaper that covers this area?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Paul Stagnoli
> >
> >
> >
>
>