[KLUG Members] RE: DSL

[Mike Williams]

>
> Subject:
> [KLUG Members] RE: DSL
> From:
> Taz <htgage3@chartermi.net>
> Date:
> Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:24:08 -0500
>
> To:
> members <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
>
>
If you're in West Michigan, I'd reccommend giving TDS Metrocom a try.  I 
signed up with them about 6 months ago, and I've been happy.  They 
provided a simple DSL router as part of the setup fees, and the 
up/download speeds are the same.  The router is an Actiontec something, 
but it will serve NAT and DHCP to ethernet, or wireless with a PC card 
wireless adapter.  The only problem I've had with it was that you have 
to reboot the router to change NAT port mappings.  Since I set up an 
Astaro firewall for that, rebooting the router hasn't been necessary. 

For (I think) $30.00 a month I get 256K each way, and they don't care if 
I run servers as long as it's non-commercial.  Reliability has been 
pretty good, and a couple of calls I made went to a fairly knowledgeable 
human after 10 minutes or so on hold.  I do have occasional slowdowns 
from "far end CRC errors" that might be related to a wiring problem at 
my house, so until/unless I've ruled that out I can't blame TDS for it.