Bay Area home internet

Wed Aug 16 16:21:31 PDT 2006

Rowan,

I've had four different DSL services at three different locations over
several years.  The AT&T was awful -- if you're lucky, it just works.
If you're unlucky, it won't work, you'll spend up to 6 hours per
complaint call, and in the end they won't fix it.  I'm now using
DSLExtreme at two different locations and have been very happy for about
three years.

- Ames

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 21:25 -0700, John "Rowan" Littell wrote:
> So, I'm moving to the Bay Area -- Oakland, to be specific (actually,  
> I'm already here, but still getting settled -- hi all).  And I'm  
> trying to figure out what options I have for internet service.   
> Naturally, don't figure myself for a complete dunce at managing  
> simple network equipment (although Comcast would certainly love to  
> sock me for it if they can).  I don't have a particular preference  
> for cable or DSL, as long as it's reasonably fast (384k is probably  
> sufficient, more is great), relatively stable, and won't treat me  
> like a complete moron (either at installation time or when I call to  
> tell them that their router is spewing bogons).  I will have  
> traditional land line phone service and cable TV (unless someone  
> really wants to talk me into Dish Networks).  I'll be connecting,  
> directly, either an old 486 running ipfw/ipnat or a Linksys workalike  
> (and behind that a couple of Mac laptops); providers who insist on  
> Win* installations will be chucked in the bit bucket where they belong.
> 
> What to people suggest/love/hate?
> 
> Thanks,
>    --rowan
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