On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:27:31PM -0500, Chuck Cole wrote: > Good info. Anybody know what it may take to get Frontier (much of Dakota > County) to allow alternate DSL vendors on their lines like Qwest does? All > they will offer now is bundled DSL and ISP (plus phone promos) and it's > expensive. I just landed in this position. I was on Comcast, running my own mail server without being bothered, when I bought a house in Lakeville. I decided I would go with Charter since I already owned a cable modem. When I starting trying to get connected my modem, a Motorola SB4100, it would keep dropping out. I was able to get a modem from Charter to try and that el-cheapo didn't seem to have any problems. In the mean time I found that Charter filters out SMTP and HTTP traffic, big negative for me. I started investigating DSL with Frontier. Now I never liked Frontier. Bad service, long story. But I decided to call and see what they would do. I asked Frontier what my ISP choices are and they told me only Visi. So I checked their web site and they give you one static IP and let you do whatever you want. 8( ) So I signed up. The deal is $40 goes to Frontier for the DSL line, 1Mb/128k. I'd prefer more on the up side, but that'll do. $20 goes to Visi for their package of one IP, mail, web space, etc. This is more expensive than Charter Pipeline, but I get what I want. The end result is I keep my nate at refried.org address, which matters to me most. Nate _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list