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I am looking at switching to speakeasy.net's PremiumPlus 768k/768k SDSL
package (with the SysAdmin/rootpro modification. No price changes for modifications
from the standard packages.).
<p><font size=-1>PremiumPlus 768 $159/month = 2 POP Emails, 1 Shell (Linux!)
Account, 4 Static IPs, 100MB Webspace, Extra Dialup Account (30/hrs month)</font>
<p><font size=-1>Premium 768 $149/month = 2 POP Emails, 1 Static IP, GameSpy
Software</font>
<p>For the extra $10 i think i will go with the Plus. The only things I
want are 1 IP, 10 meg of web space for things like ebay pictures, and a
dailup i can use with my laptop. Dont need anymore IP's or pop emails or
shell accounts.
<p>The price is kinda high from my $70/month for SDSL 768/768 at onvoy,
but I heard from someone they have very good backbones and they are supposed
to be a very good company.
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<p>Jason DeStefano wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Guess that makes two of us in this world that have
the same
<br>intentions for our networks...
<p>As much as I HATE Qwaste for screwing me, if you can get DSL
<br>then their ISP service is fairly good. I've had the following
<br>from them for the past two and a half years:
<p>640/256Kb DSL
$20
<br>Basic ISP from Qwaste $20
<br>Home office package $35 (needed to get
static subnet)
<br>8 IP subnet (29bit) $15
<p>~Total
$90/month (i think the prices are accurate)
<p>My domain is pointing to my DNS servers. I talked Qwaste into
<br>doing reverse delegation for DNS to my servers (they said they
<br>normally dont unless you have a business-class line). I run
<br>DNS and mail from my own servers with a friend who has a
<br>similar setup as my domain backup for mail and DNS. Until
<br>Qwaste screwed in my new apartment this service has been
<br>excellent (provided you can wait through the poor service when
<br>you need to make changes which is usually not often).
<p>Not sure about covad's prices and how they compete.
<p>Jason
<p>On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Jason J wrote:
<p>> If I have a static IP and an always on connection that is basically
half a T1,
<br>> why not take full advantage of it. Why not host my own mail and dns
and other
<br>> services so I don't have to rely on an ISP. If for some reason mine
should fail I
<br>> can always use the ISP's mail servers and DNS servers as a back up.
This way I
<br>> don't have to pay any more charges and I have easy physical access
to my server
<br>> if I want to make any hardware swaps. I have to have a server anyway,
for
<br>> firewalling, MASQ'ing and VPN. I like having my family's email stored
on family
<br>> property and not sitting on someone else's server where it can be
read or deleted
<br>> at someone else's request. There are alot of other reasons that I
wouldnt want to
<br>> share a colo server that I dont feel like typing out.
<br>>
<br>> Anyway, these comments do not answer my question and are just negative
criticism
<br>> of my connection usage. I just want to know if anyone knows if I
can trust Covad
<br>> to stay in business. And I also want to know if anyone has opinions
on which
<br>> company is better, Covad or Qwest.
<br>>
<br>> Thank you all in advance for your help.
<br>>
<br>>
<br>>
<br>> Bob Tanner wrote:
<br>>
<br>> > Quoting Scott Dier (dieman@ringworld.org):
<br>> > > * Jason J <jasonj@innominatus.com> [001228 23:16]:
<br>> > > > I host several domains for myself and family members.
<br>> > > > Email accounts for those domains
<br>> > >
<br>> > > I really can't wait until the trend for this sort of dsl usage
falls
<br>> > > away and back into groups of people grouping together to fund
colocated
<br>> > > machines. It's really a shame on how many people get burned
by all this
<br>> > > DSL instablity. Most ISP's dont just go around shutting
off colocated
<br>> > > customers. :)
<br>> > >
<br>> > > Plus, theres much less complexity by taking the [Qwest,Covad,Rythms]
<br>> > > DSL part of the equation out.
<br>> >
<br>> > There is the whole "root-envy" thing on shared colocated boxes.
Everyone just
<br>> > wants the power and they don't want to share.
<br>> >
<br>> > --
<br>> > Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>
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