[wplug] Pittsburgh DSL questions

[Lance Tost]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Steven Leach wrote:
> Libcom's pricing looks good, but also appears to be excessively 
> restrictive.   Any and all commercial activities are banned (should 
> never be an issue, but who knows?  Their definition seems extremely 
> broad and open to harsh interpretation), "servers that generate high 
> volumes of traffic and bandwidth allocations for that residential 
> circuit for extended periods of time... will result in the immediate 
> disconnection of service without refund".   Again, nothing like that 
> should ever be an issue but if they ever decide that I am somehow 
> violating any of their rules and flip the switch, my email server will 
> suddenly be dead in the water... not good.

I've been with libcom for a while now.  Speed seems decent... two static 
IPs is nice.  The only complaint I have is that they aren't able to give 
me a reverse DNS entry because of some conflict over the IP range between 
Libcom's provider and another.  I've never had an outage that lasted more 
than a few hours, and even those are rare... and usually I can determine 
that it's not Libcom but some upstream provider having the issue.

I run a couple websites (non-commercial) and stream mp3s to myself at 
work... I've never had a problem with them shutting it off or anything.

I have 512/512 service and typically get 70+ KBytes/sec when 
downloading... upstream speed seems fine but I've never measured it.  I 
can stream mp3s to myself and use an interactive ssh shell with no 
problems.

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Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>