[TriLUG] Linux and RoadRunner ( was Linux and ATT)

[David A. Cafaro]

I don't know about RR, my experience with Bellsouth ADSL, and later Comcast 
(Cable modem) is that they don't support appliances either.  I usually have 
to do the fake windows thing as well.  But then when the techs come to the 
house they are usually like, wow, what can it do?

At 11:04 AM 4/5/2002, you wrote:
>Do they support appliance firewalls (Netgear/Dlink/etc.)?
>I know that I have had similar issues when calling, I just
>tell them I have Windows and fake trying the stuff they
>ask me to do. But it would see that they would have to support
>some firewalls, given that they don't want me to sue them if
>someone steals data from my PC.
>
>John
>
>On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:51:33AM -0500, Al Koscielny wrote:
> > > Good. You should probably send an email to customer relations saying why
> > > you're dropping. And when the telemarketers start calling you, it'd be a
> > > good way to vent by telling them how ATT isn't in tune with the Linux
> > > and free software markets. :^)
> >
> > RoadRunner went south briefly on Tuesday, so I called Time Warner tech
> > support to ask about network problems.  The second question the support
> > person asked was "Which operating system are you running?"  When I said
> > Linux, the support person replied, "We don't support Linux."
> >
> > --
> > Al Koscielny
> > alko at nc.rr.com
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