[aclug-L] Re: Any good ISPs out there?

[Chris Owen <owenc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Anne McCadden wrote:

> If you are wanting a fairly fast connection, then I would suggest
> either Roadrunner or DSL.  RR goes down sometimes, but they are fairly
> reliable.  DSL has its times that it is fast and sometimes that it is
> slow, according to some of my friends who use DSL.  Some people have
> had problems with the PPPOE protocol on linux.

What we recommend (and what we do for our customers) if you are doing
dynamic ADSL is put the authentication in the CPE instead of on the
individual machine.  We use a rather full featured router for a DSL CPE.
It does PPPoA (PPP over ATM) right in the CPE so you aren't messing with
PPPoE on the workstation.  This box also does DCHP and/or NAT. Pretty cool
solution and it is actually less expensive than most of the dumb DSL
bridges out there.

> Lately there have been more people on broadband in the evening it gets
> kind of slow, after about 10:30pm it gets faster when a lot of people
> get off the net.

There is really no excuse for that.  I would think that a pretty basic
requirement of a "good ISP" would be that your throughput would not vary
based on the time of day or number of other people using it.  The internet
has enough bottlenecks, your ISP should never be one of them.

Chris

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