[KLUG Members] Ameritech dsl

[Wesley Leonard]

I had decent experience with ameritech when I lived in Kalamazoo.  They're a bit
slow sometimes is all (took them a while to get the line installed and then they
didn't notify me).

Make sure you get a NON-USB modem (or, from the other angle, an ethernet
modem).  If they don't give you a  choice and you do wind up with a USB modem
you can probably find a used one for sale on eBay or something.  I don't
remember the exact model that I had but I think it was a Westell.  hehe

Ameritech also has no port filtering and they don't seem to care if you run
servers.  They want to sell you a static IP but you don't need that...

l8er 

bill wrote:
> 
> Talking with Ameritech about something else, they offered DSL for 30
> bucks a month.  Sounds better than most.
> 
> The modem comes "free" but the operator wasn't the person to ask about
> linux compatibility.
> 
> I saw Earthlink and somebody else trashed recently on the list for their
> broadband efforts, what say ye of Ameritech?
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> bill hollett
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Members mailing list
> Members@kalamazoolinux.org
> 

-- 
Wesley Leonard

marshall@pacdemon.org                   http://pacdemon.org
marshall@westmichigancomputing.com      http://westmichigancomputing.com

"Rather than form a federation with Microsoft and work with what we had already
created, there was this notion that the world should be offered an alternative." 
    -- Craig Mundie, CTO of Microsoft Corporation