On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Tom Wike wrote: > Hello, > Does anyone have any experience with Verizon/GTE DSL and Mandrake?? > Thanks in advance. > GTE sells DSL separate from ISP service so shop the ISP's for the best deal relative to your desires. Last time I checked, GTE Internet service (which is separate from GTE the Telco) only offers a very basic surf-fast-but-don't-be-a-server-on-our-residential-lines type of service. I have 384K service and pay a little more than GTE Internet would have charged. However, I get a fixed IP, slave DNS service for my domain, a shell account including ssh, a pretty responsive customer service department that is Linux aware (not officially supported they will work with both Linux and BSD users), and they do not care much about what I run. GTE has had some problems with their residential DSL service. Mostly these are related to under estimating demand and having to rush upgrades. I was once disconnected for 16 hours because of a botched frame relay switch upgrade. Another time I was down because if a dead kentrox card at one end of a T3 line. However in two years of service I can say I have had fewer outages with GTE DSL than my employer has had with UUNet T1's so I can't complain _too_ loud The following URL lists participating ISP's in various parts of the country. http://www.gte.com/dsl/partisp.html My ISP is California Prime Line: http://www.cpl.net -- Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt ============================================================== Living well is the only revenge. An eye for an eye only leads to lots of blind people. ==============================================================
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