NO -- I am quite sure he was not connected via Northpoint (which is who AT&T
purchased).  He is probably using Telocity with Covad.  In any case, AT&T
did not buy any of the ISP components or its customers.  Just hardware in
the COs.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Nielsen" <mike at getbent.net>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] The internet sucks. (DSL/Cablemodem?)


> Telocity just got baought out by AT&T or at least part of their backbone
did.
> Some customers are getting notice of termination of service from around
> the Twin Cities area.
>
> To be honest with you, if you need a decent reliable providor for DSL and
> whatnot in the Twin Cities area your best bets are companies like
>
> Qwest (I have installed well over 30+ setups with them, yeah they are a
pain
> in the ass but once they work they work. And I have a personal contact at
> headquarters who can make things happen for me.  So I'm biased towards
them)
>
> Visi - So far I have had no problem with them at all.  They will drop now
and
> again but most of my clients are happy with them  (I have done probably
12+
> setups with visi)
>
> ISD (Another smaller local company, who for the most part is pretty solid)
>
> Megapath - See Telocity
>
> Bitstream - I have only done 3 setups with Bitstream.  A few config
problems
> here and there but no downtime as of yet.
>
> RoadRunner is just starting to offer a business clas Cable service.  I
don't
> think it is availiable in residential area's (Unless you twist some arms)
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Monday 26 March 2001 14:56, you wrote:
> > Is Telocity offering a good deal? Are they a good/dependable provider?
> >
> > >>> natecars at REAL-TIME.COM 03/26/01 02:20PM >>>
> >
> > On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Joseph Key wrote:
> > > RoadRunner only has a 56K upload speed and about 400K download (on a
good
> > > day).  You can get around the dynamic IP with one of the dynamic ip
dns
> > > services like www.dyndns.org
> >
> > eeeEEk! I'm glad I couldn't get that then.  :)
> >
> > I can't do DynDNS, because I use a mail server on the IP address, and
> > prefer to follow RFC.
> >
> > I actually ended up signing up for an account at Telocity.
>
> --
>
>
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