[wplug] Any Suggestion for DSL Service for Linux?

[Richard A. Bilonick]

I've had @Home for 2 or 3 years now and had beenr reasonably happy. That is,
until I received an e-mail from them accusing me of running a mail server and
sending span. They said someone complained that I was sending them spam. I sent
them an e-mail asking who made this claim. So far I've haven't heard back from
them (it's been over 1 week). As far as I can tell, I don't have a mail server
running on my computer and I know I'm not spamming anyone.

They also said that I was running an FTP server. Now this is true. I sometimes
use FTP at work or CMU to get a file from home. According to @Home, this is not
allowed (along with serving web pages).

I think it is ridiculous to prevent me from FTP'ing to get an occasional file.
I could understand if I were letting hundreds of people FTP my computer.

I checked with Nauticom and I can get symmetric DSL (via Penntelecom). For DSL
service, I would need to switch my Bell Atlantic phone line to Penntelecom. The
cost would be 59.95 a month ($39.95 for DSL and $20 for phone service) for the
DSL and phone line. I checked with them and it is OK to run FTP  and telnet
(they said that's some of the reasons people use DSL) although I don't believe
you are allowed to serve web pages.

I would be interested in other peoples experience with this. I'm planning to
switch shortly because I'm afraid that @Home will terminate my service without
any notice. (Trying to communicate with @Home is a time-consuming and
frustrating experience - and their technical people are clueless.)

Rick Bilonick

Luquilla Hughes wrote:

> My friend has got Verio, which has handled all of the contact with the phone
> company and he seems very happy about it. I think they are verio.com.
>
> I just got @home and was wondering why you wanted to switch?
>
> >From: AtHome <rabil at home.com>
> >Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
> >To: wplug at wplug.org
> >Subject: [wplug] Any Suggestion for DSL Service for Linux?
> >Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:57:51 -0500
> >
> >I currently have @Home but would like to change to DSL. Can anyone suggest
> >which service to use? I want to use it of course with a Linux computer.
> >Comments would be appreciated.
> >
> >Rick Bilonick
> >
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