[COLUG] Linux-friendly rural broadband in Central Ohio?

[Frank Rieder]

I use Direcway and as soon as the 1 year is up this august we are moving
to Adelphia.  Direcway is not reliable, call tech support and one of two
indian people answer.  I had went up to the level 3 tech support before
I talked to someone who spoke good english here in the states.  Ended up
that the installation was messed up to begin with and three months later
of bad connection (if any) someone came out and seen the problem.  The
three months I was calling tech support.  Call me disgruntled but I am
not a happy customer.  You are limited to 169megs in any 4 hour time
block and if you go over what they call this FAP (Fair Access Policy)
then you are throttled back to below or equal to 56k speed.  I was
completely shut off a few times. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: colug-bounces at colug.net 
> [mailto:colug-bounces at colug.net] On Behalf Of peter kukla
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:31 PM
> To: colug at colug.net
> Subject: [COLUG] Linux-friendly rural broadband in Central Ohio?
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> I am leaving the comforts of civilization behind and
> moving to a house FAR from Cable or DSL connectivity. 
> (In the Lancaster-Amanda area, back in the woods.)
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> Does anyone out there have experience with the
> "alternate" sources of Internet connectivity for the
> wired guy? Satellite, plain old dialup with an
> extremely good provider, or something else?  What has
> worked well, and what hasn't?
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> I'm currently using 2 IPs from Road Runner, one for my
> Coyote Linux box, and one for my personal webserver.
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> Keeping this configuration would make my life a LOT
> easier, so multiple IPs are a bonus.
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> I'm not a major bandwidth-hog.  I download a few ISOs
> and tarballs now and then, but I don't play network
> games or bother with file-sharing.  Mostly I web-surf
> and login to a remote machine or two using ssh.
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> A constant-on state would be preferred.
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> Linux friendliness (or, at least, tolerance) is very
> much desired.
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> Any Linux folk out there in the 740 area code with an
> opinion?
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> TIA...peter
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