Good point, Nate! FWIW: The Burnsville Apple Valley area is stuck with Charter for cable or Frontier for DSL. Both block port 25, and neither provides a means for me to do smtpauth with Earthlink. Each has some agreements with other ISPs (Visi, AOL) so some unbundled "wire services" are available, but neither has a deal with Earthlink, for example. Various workarounds may be possible, but without help or support. Bottom line is that service here is limited and quirky. This also means that WiFi hotspots (eg, some Surfthing sites) are also blocked. Chuck > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org and > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of nate at refried.org > > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:42:57PM -0500, Carl Lindholm wrote: > > Does anyone out there recommend Qwest dsl for internet. Is there an > > alternative? > > It all depends on where you live. You could have the choice between any > one or two of Qwest, Frontier, Comcast, Charter, Time Warner or (insert > other phone or cable company here). In general you have the choice > between DSL and cable. From there you need to decide how much bandwidth > you want and what you want to do with it. Some ISP's don't allow you to > run services and some block them outright. > > So doing more research is key. Knowing who is available where you live > is the first step. > > 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