[KLUG Members] SBC Ameritech

John Miler members@kalamazoolinux.org
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:00:15 -0400


 I spent more time waiting on hold with them than anything else.

Jon Miller
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On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:45:39  
 Adam Williams6 wrote:
>>For my first time there, I thought last night's meeting was very
>>informative. You have a great bunch of guys, need some work on the women
>>though :-)
>
>Geek-Male had been in production release for some time,  Geek-Female is 
>still in beta test (see www.linuxchic.org).  It isn't really an issue of 
>the package itself,  but there are serious interoperability problems 
>between the Geek-Male and Geek-Female packages.  Many of these are simply 
>inherited, as Geek-Mail and Geek-Female are derived from the Male and 
>Female code base, respectively.  The problems between those base packages 
>are legendary.  Maybe .Net will help this out. 
>
>>My high speed Internet options in Holland are SBC Ameritech DSL. Anybody
>>have any comments on them, things to ask or be aware of before I invest 50
>>bucks a month into this 1 year commitment. I have a wireless SMC internet
>>gateway I'll be hooking up to the DSL modem that does nat, dhcp, is a
>>firewall, etc.
>
>Once they are installed it typically works reliably.  Getting it 
>installed, and dealing with tech support, can be a pain.  The price is 
>also pretty high for what they offer in the way of services.
>
>Have you checked at speakeasy.net to see if you can go through them 
>instead?
>
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