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RE: [PLUG] DirecTV DSL & Linux
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I use DirecTV DSL. Reason: cheapest static IP addr available at the time,
($49./mo.) and the salesman said that they had no objection to my running
servers. It's been about 1 1/2 years and I have only 3 negatives:
1. Contract says "Not for business use", but what they really mean is "we
watch your bandwith usage"... But then, it's aDSL, so if you're a business,
or expect to serve 100 connections/second it's too slow anyway...
2. You can run web, mail, and other servers and they'll even add a zone for
your domain name on their nameservers, but you don't get reverse DNS
lookups.
3. Occasionally, their connection goes down. This isn't too often, usually
only about once every 6 months, but did occurr two days in a row once.
Nearly always, simply rebooting the bridge ("modem") will get your
connection back.
On the positive side, tech support has been good (even Linux savy!) the few
times that I had to use them.
If I were going into business, needed SDSL, or more than 1 static IP addr,
then I would consider DCA as I've heard nothing but good reports of them.
But for home-based experimentation and learning, DirecTV's price was the
deal maker for me.
-mike.h
-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Edward M. Corrado
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 2:01 PM
To: Philadelphia Linux Users Group
Cc: LUG/IP (Linux Users Group/In Princeton)
Subject: [PLUG] DirecTV DSL & Linux
Has anyone used DIRECTV's DSL service, and if so how would you rate
it? Did you have any problems using Linux with it? Also, have you had any
problems with them blocking specific ports? I really want to use
speakeasy.net based on personal recommendations and reviews that I have
read, but they aren't available in my area yet and they apparently have no
time table for DSL in my area. Basically, my choices are currently limited
to Verizon and DirecTV dsl services. One thing that I saw on the DirecTV
DSL website (and appeared to be confirmed by the script-reading
telemarketer that called me the other day while I was watching TV was that
they assign you a static IP allow you to run a web server (both plusses in
my book), but I can't find anything in the actually agreement that says
that they allow the web server part (or what other services they allow you
to run) . Any experiences (good or bad) would be greatly appreciated.
Ed C.
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