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Re: Speakeasy - Re: [PLUG] Verizon Business DSL
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gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 04:19:46PM -0500, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> > I read that they had run out of the game consoles, so didn't push on
> > that (and don't play many games myself.) Although I signed up for the
> > gamer, rather than sysadmin package, as I didn't have much interest in
> > the rpm service with sysadmin. Gamer comes with a game update download
> > service of some kind, which I may not use either.
>
> Hrm. I got in before these goony-named packages. They all look
> exactly the same except for trappings to me. Oh well, whatever.
>
Yeah, my thought also. They seem to throw in one of those 'extra'
services based on the name of the account order.
> (I wouldn't use any of those benefits. RPMs faster? Gee, swell, that
> does *me* a lot of good, running NetBSD, NeXTStep, Irix... And
> faster access to game servers? What, you mean like netris?)
>
> Anyway, I've said, till I'm pretty much sick of saying it, that I'm
> quite happy with Speakeasy, but would plausibly be happy also with
> DCANet. In fact, I've convinced a friend to get DCANet service
> around here (in Swarthmore) recently, so I may have something
> concrete to say about them the next time this question comes up
> (which it seems to every two months... gee, sure would be nice if we
> had current archives, wouldn't it? ;^>). The fact that they hand you
> a /29 is pretty neat.
>
> > Nice thing, they already setup reverse dns on the line. Took about 48
> > hours from online request to completion.
>
> That's a longer turnaround than it used to be. I had mine within a
> couple of hours, but that all went through about a year and a half
> ago.
There's a day in there for holiday/Christmas/weekend time, so I can't
really complain. Plus, I don't have the hardware yet, as I'm waiting
for the 5 day shipment from KY of the modem...
>
> I'm about to move (across a parking lot, but to a different phone
> NID, so there'll have to be a new Verizon install, then Covad
> hookup), and switch over to 768/768 SDSL. I've only spoken with
Wow. Want to adopt me? :) I was hoping to have the option of 1.5/768
ADSL, but neither Covad or Verizon offer it from my CO to my address.
> Speakeasy on the "Okay, what do I need to do to muscle Verizon into
> doing the right thing," front so far, but I'll be glad to let folks
> know how it goes, if you're curious.
>
> Since I can keep my old line up via a wireless link to the new
> apartment, I should be near zero downtime, provided that Verizon
> doesn't break something. Hopefully enough of it's out of their hands
> that that won't be possible...
--
Kevin Brosius
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