[linux-help] Re: Routing sanity-check

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When you upgrade service, they just charge a $39-or-so upgrade fee.  You may
be forced to renew your contract at that time (i.e. stay on for a year from
the time you upgrade)... but it doesn't break the contract.  At least not
according to what they told me when I asked :-)


On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 10:28:45AM -0500, Clint A. Brubakken wrote:
> to put my 2 cents in: 
> 
> My DSL is installed tomorrow, and I'm going with SWBI, for 2 reasons:
> 
> If you sign up before April 30, and you agree to sign a one year
> contract and use SWBI, installation ($200) and isp service is free
> ($10/month) after that year you still own the dsl modem, and can go with
> someone else but that a $320 savings, and as this is just a hobbyist use
> (ie I'm not making any money of it) that enough for me to use SWBI.
> 
> Also we've used it at work for several months, with no real problems.
> 
> It remains to be seen if I upgrade to the 6mb/5 ip option if that counts
> a breaking my contract
> 
> 
> 
> 
> j m wagle wrote:
> > 
> > Carl:
> > thanks,
> > My son wants to get a 'DSL' line from SWB, but for now I will stay with
> > Southwind also.
> > mike wagle
> > 
> > Carl D Cravens wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, j m wagle wrote:
> > >
> > > > Not a very related question, but please tell me the advantages of
> > > > using DSL from SWB and Southwind at internet provider?
> > >
> > > SWBI is an unknown quantity.  I've been a customer of SouthWind for over
> > > five years.  I know what their service is like.  I even know what their
> > > weaknesses tend toward.  I don't know what SWBI is like... except that
> > > right now I'm hearing they're having DNS problems.  I've never heard
> > > anyone praise them for anything, which is almost as bad as hearing about
> > > problems.
> > >
> > > I prefer to get my Internet from the small guy... SWBI is a large,
> > > faceless corporation in which I'm a drop-in-the-bucket customer.  Just in
> > > trying to get my DSL line hooked up through them I got one representative
> > > that rudely would not let the SouthWind rep stay on the line with me
> > > during ordering the service.  Supposedly her supervisor backed her up.
> > > We called back and got another rep who didn't care if the SW rep was on
> > > the line with me.
> > >
> > > SouthWind cares about Wichita and the surrounding area... they're a
> > > city-wide provider, not a multiple-states-wide one.  Though they're owned
> > > by OneMain, they're still run in Wichita by local folks.  (At least for
> > > now... who knows what OneMain might do in the future.)
> > >
> > > > I am not very bright and don't understand the advantages of either 
> > > > service.
> > > > (Note: I only have a 28.8 modem and use Southwind as my ISP)
> > >
> > > Beyond being a known quantity, I already have them set up as my secondary
> > > DNS for my dedicated services.  It's much easier to move to another set of
> > > IP's staying with SouthWind than moving to another company.  That won't be
> > > a concern of yours, though.
> > 
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> -- 
> Clint Brubakken
> Developer, Computer Science Services Group, LLC
> President Air Capital Linux Users Group 
> Wichita, KS
> cabrubak@xxxxxxx
> ---
> "So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say
> it 
> follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able
> to say, 
> yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model."
> 
>   -- Linus Torvalds on Portability (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and
> Associates)
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