[wplug] ISP providers in Pittsburgh?
Casey R. Tweten
crt at kiski.net
Tue Dec 5 17:45:21 EST 2000
Today around 10:06am, Vincent DiAngelus hammered out this masterpiece:
: Well my experence has been about the same with service
: providers.
:
: When I started fooling with Linux I was using
: Stargate. I liked them as a provider for my Win boxes.
: I got lucky and found the one guy they have on staff
: that knows Linux. I think his name was Mike??
: But for some reason I coulden't connect above 26.4Kbs
: even my transfer rates were down in the 2.4 - 3.0
: range. But when I dialed to a number in Butler (I live
: in Cranberry) I could get 48-53Kbs. I have been told
: everything from; "it's a problem with the lines in
: your area" to "you must have a bad modem".
I work for HighVision Internet Access ( not related to Stargate ) and
connect to HVI at 48Kbs with my linux box ( was RH5.2 and RH6.2
). I was able to play around with the chat scripts and netcfg engough
to make it work, it was my first dialup from linux. It has worked
great so far ( past 1.5 years ) and I've not complained, even to
myself ;-)
Anyhow, we have numbers all over Pittsburgh and surrounding areas if
you're interested.
: --- Mike Procario <Michael.Procario at science.doe.gov>
: wrote:
: > I would sign up if I still lived in Pittsburgh. Let
: > me ask a question
: > about how ISP's work. I have had terrible
: > experiences here in Frederick
: > using both Linux and Windows. I usually connect
: > with a reported speed
: > of 40-48K. However, I find my average performance is
: > quite a bit worse
: > by timing multi-megabyte downloads.
: >
: > I use kppp which can plot the instantaneous data
: > rate. It consists of
: > spikes of activity interspersed with periods of no
: > data. The spikes
: > reach 6 Kbytes/sec which you would expect for a
: > 48kbps connection. A
: > particularly bad times the dead periods are much
: > longer the active
: > periods. This looks like the connection from the POP
: > (point of presence)
: > to the ISP's "backbone" is being saturated, and that
: > the ISP is time
: > slicing the connection out of the POP. Is my
: > analysis correct?
: >
: > After putting up with this for awhile on Mindspring
: > (since bought by
: > Earthlink). I decided to try some local Frederick,
: > MD ISP's. The two
: > that I tried were both as bad. I also tried another
: > national ISP, who
: > also performed badly. My second question is do
: > ISP's share POP's?
: > Might there only be POP in Frederick and all the
: > various ISP are
: > actually using that same connection out it? In my
: > research an awful lot
: > of ISP's claimed to support Frederick. If each ran
: > their POP we would
: > have a hundred different POP's in town.
: >
: > Mark Dzmura wrote:
: > >
: > > Fellow WPLUG'ers:
: > >
: > > I try to avoid shameless advertising in a forum
: > such as this, but - given the recent
: > > discussion thread on ISP's - I think folks on the
: > list should be aware that we at
: > > Digital Mission LLC / digipath (who have been
: > hosting the WPLUG web server
: > > for almost two years) offer a full line of
: > connectivity services, in addition to our
: > > hosting and colocation services.
: > >
: > > Our dialup service is normally $19.95/month, but
: > we offer a $5/month discount -that's $14.95/month -
: > > to Linux users (that is, to folks connecting with
: > Linux boxes - we can tell!). Our service is very
: > reliable
: > > and uptime is extremely good (we had a total of 20
: > HOURS of downtime last year, due to two separate
: > > incidents (beyond our control) in which fibers
: > were cut - and which brought down other providers
: > and
: > > hundreds of local businesses.
: > >
: > > Our basic dialup includes unlimited access,
: > personal web page, 10 MB of disk space, etc...
: > > We are presently testing our web-based secure
: > email access - it needs some polishing on the HTML -
: > > and expect to have it fully operational before Jan
: > 1 2001. With regard to specific things that you
: > > might want: as some of your fellow WPLUG'ers could
: > tell you, we are a lot more flexible than the
: > > competition, and we understand YOUR platform - our
: > infrastructure is built almost entirely on
: > > Linux (with a little bit of Solaris for good
: > measure.)
: > >
: > > In addition to dialup, we also offer DSL services.
: > Due to the nature of the industry, we haven't
: > > yet found a way to be competivive with ADSL
: > pricing, but our business-oriented SDSL
: > > services are both price-competitive and
: > high-performance.
: > >
: > > Our managed virtual hosting, managed/unmanaged
: > server co-location, and shopping cart/
: > > e-commerce services are flexible, featureful, and
: > reasonably priced.
: > >
: > > Once again, I apologize for the shameless
: > commerce, but felt that we have an option that
: > > WPLUG'ers should know about. If you are
: > interested in these or any of our other services,
: > > please contact us as follows:
: > >
: > > * email to me, Rob Dale, or sales at digipath.net
: > > * Rob Dale is usually on IRC
: > > * our sales # is 412-429-6002
: > >
: > > Regards,
: > > Mark
: > >
: > > "Christopher W. Aiken" wrote:
: > >
: > > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 06:06:52PM -0500,
: > Jonathan S Billings wrote:
: > > > -|Telerama too. (http://www.telerama.com)
: > > > -|(I'm happy with them, they have a tux on their
: > front page!)
: > > > -|
: > > >
: > -|_______________________________________________
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: > > > -|wplug at wplug.org
: > > > -|http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug
: > > >
: > > > Yep. Telerama.com is VERY good. Shell access,
: > news servers,
: > > > 5MB for home pages, AND webmail for us travelers
: > ( along with pop/smtp ).
: > > > I've had them for over a year. $20/month.
: > > > --
: > > > --
: > > > Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
: > > > chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
: > > > Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
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: >
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: >
: >
: ---------------------------------------------------------------------
: > Mike Procario DOE-Division of High
: > Energy Physics
: > Phone: 301-903-2890 Email:
: > Michael.Procario at science.doe.gov
: >
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