[TriLUG] DirecTV DSL anyone?

[Christopher Knowles]

And I fourth it.  Unlike Time Warner they own't hang up on you when you 
mention the L-word.  Their support is, of course, weirdly bad, but that's 
because they are still in growth mode, and are signing up way more people 
than one would if they were worried about support.  

They've only had a few worrying problems from my viewpoint.  Some BellSouth 
routing issues, which have been fixed, and other than that they've been doing 
great.  (If you call tech support when there isn't a systemic problem, you 
can talk to a living breathing being in about 45 seconds, so they have 
people, just not enough for the big problems.)

Anyway, compared to the nightmare that is Bell South or Verizon DSL I can 
recommend them.

(And I realize people here are having good experiences with Tiem Warner, but 
I had nothing but trouble and when it wasn't broken it was slow.)

CJK

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:04 pm, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> I second (third) what others have said. I have DirecTV DSL (fka
> Telocity) in Chapel Hill; tech support has been poor-to-adequate, but the
> service itself is great, particularly for the price. The first gateway I
> got from them was defective, which caused a couple of weeks delay, but
> since receiving the second it works great -- I've never had to power cycle
> (the gateway has been up continuously since June), but for some reason
> periodically I have to do:
>
> ifconfig eth1 down
> ifconfig eth1 up
>
> from the console. (I've ended up having cron do this automatically: check
> for network connectivity and do the down/up sequence if there's no ping
> out.) I have my linux (debian) box doing ipmasq for three other
> machines: two laptops (one debian, one Win98) and my wife's Win98 desktop.
>
> ap
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin at unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
>  Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
>       269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
>
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I just received a flyer about this DSL company. It is about the same
> > (same top download speed, lower upload speed, ...)
> >
> > The main differences are:
> >
> > - -they provide a fixed IP and
> > - - it looks very Linux friendly:
> >
> > (from http://www.directvdsl.com/why/faq.asp)
> >
> > Is there anything I should change about my computer?
> >  ... The only change you might need to consider is if your Windows PC
> > doesn't already have an Ethernet card, you may want to install one to get
> > the best performance. Ethernet cards are inexpensive and rather simple to
> > install. Macintosh, Linux, or UNIX computers need Ethernet for their
> > DIRECTV DSL™ connection, but most of these computers already come
> > equipped with it.
> >
> > Can I host a Virtual Private Network (VPN)?
> >  YES! ...
> >
> > Can I run my own Web, FTP, DNS, SMTP, POP3, or other email server?
> >  Yes...
> >
> > Does DIRECTV DSL™ support X-Windows, TELNET, and FTP?
> >  Yes ...
> >
> >
> >
> > So,
> >
> > Anyone with them? Horror stories anyone? Do they really work? Are they
> > part of the Microsoft/Disney megamonopolies?
> >
> >
> >
> > Salut,
> > Sinner
> > - --
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/     Linux User # 89976
> > Running on Mandrake 8.1 - Kernel  2.4.8-26mdk     Linux Machine # 38068
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