[TriLUG] Linux/DSL/Wake Forest

[Michael Hrivnak]

You can go to www.whitepages.com and use the "Reverse Address" feature to find 
a phone number for one of your neighbors to plug into the Sprint stuff.  
That'll tell you if it's available and how far you are from the CO.

Michael

On Thursday 28 October 2004 03:00 pm, Steve Hoffman wrote:
> All,
> I'll be moving to Wake Forest in the next month or so and see that the
> phone provider is Sprint.  Do they offer DSL in that area? Does it
> work with Linux (pppoe or DHCP)?  What are speeds like?  I don't have
> a phone number up there yet so I can't check availability, anyone have
> their service in the Burlington Mills Rd area?  I've been to their
> website, which is completely useless...I wanted to see how fast it
> was...I got a flash animation...ugh!  On the otherside of the coin,
> how's RR up there?  I'm drooling over that 6M down and 512K up, but
> the standard package would work just as well.  I know that RR is
> extremely linux friendly so that may be the route I go, but I just
> wanted to see what others have experienced.
>
> TIA
> Steve