mike.h on Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:18:39 -0500 |
Gabriel, About bandwidth: All I claim is that DirecTV's contract is vague w/ regard to business use, see previous posting. I haven't had any complaints with or from them. About price: You're correct. DCA's prices have come down. At the time I signed up, however, they cost more. So, if I were signing up today, DCA does look like the way to go. About the IP Address block: you are correct about the /29 and 6 addresses. -mike.h -----Original Message----- From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org [mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of gabriel rosenkoetter Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:34 AM To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org Subject: Re: [PLUG] DirecTV DSL & Linux Nit, nit, nit. Sounds like people who have it are happy with DirecTV DSL. It sounds like a reasonable compromise for someone who'd be content with cable if it weren't for the bad policies cable ISPs hold. (I wouldn't be content with cable, even outside of those policies, so I probably wouldn't like DirecTV DSL. Ymmv.) On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:38:32AM -0500, mike.h wrote: > I use DirecTV DSL. Reason: cheapest static IP addr available at the time, > ($49./mo.) Last I checked, DCANet gave you five static IPs at that rate. Maybe it's changed, maybe I'm misremembering. > 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... But aren't you paying for a specific bandwidth utilization? I pay for 608/128 from Speakeasy. If I'm not getting my full bandwidth and it's not the remote sites fault, I have cause to call and complain. (Note that I haven't had to call and complain. :^>) Are you saying that if you keep your connection at full utilization for a long period of time DirecTV doesn't like it, or are you saying that they aren't doing bandwidth shaping properly to limit you, so it's *possible* to take advantage of them but they get angry when you do? > 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. Speakeasy happily does reverse DNS lookups. Cf, the reverse DNS on the IP address from which I IRC (66.92.234.98). > 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. Eww. Both telco outtages I've had with Speakeasy in two and a half years have been Verizon's fault. (There've been a few others that were PECO's fault, but that's because I don't have my DSL modem on battery backup like the rest of my networking hardware.) > On the positive side, tech support has been good (even Linux savy!) the few > times that I had to use them. That's good to know (and seems to be the norm for most DSL providers; even the regional and national ones feel more like local dialin providers to me, which is very nice). > But for home-based experimentation and learning, DirecTV's price was the > deal maker for me. I've got no argument with that. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net _________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug
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