Hello, US Family is the lowest cost DSL offering in the area that I've found. They do however punish you if you download more then 10GiB a month. Read the AUP carefully! Also they discount payments for 6 months and 1 year ahead. http://usfamily.net -Matt PS: I don't get a free month if you go with them ;) On 6/7/07, J <j at packetgod.com> wrote: > > Right but in essence you are paying twice as Qwest steeply discounts > their service. > > What you are paying for is service, support, a static IP, and no inbound > restrictions whatsoever. So no hidden rate limiters, not limits on > running any type of server at home, or in my case no limits on doing > vulnerability scans from home (for work, all legal and approved of > course). > > So if you want to be able to pick up the phone and talk to someone who > knows what they are talking about and can actually hop on the router and > check IPHouse is the way to go. If you want to run mail and web and > whatever at home, get IPhouse. If you want to do massive file sharing > go with IPHouse. > > If you don't care about that go with Qwest. And if you do go with > IPHouse tell them *I* sent you :) (yes I get a free month) > > --j > > Erik Anderson wrote: > > On 6/6/07, Benjamin Gramlich <benjamin.gramlich at gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> What are the advantages, then, of paying twice for the same service? > >> > > > > Technically, you're *not* paying twice for the same service. You're > > paying Qwest a fee for usage of their copper and for routing your > > traffic over their ATM network to IPHouse. Then...you pay IPHouse a > > fee for the actual internet service. > > > > -Erik > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070607/e2bc7de8/attachment.htm