Linux-friendly ISPs?

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Thu Aug 26 20:10:19 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 13:05, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> > The best part is their tech support.  I encountered a service outage once
> > and even though I was sitting in front of a Red Hat 8 box at the time,
> > the tech on the other end wasn't phased and we eventually tracked down
> > the problem to the dsl modem.
> 
> This is definitely where SpeakEasy wins. Other ISP's will ask you to hook 
> your Windows box to the cable modem because the script that the first level 
> techs work from can't handle anything else.

Cable modems often have a web interface at 192.168.100.1 so you
can read the details yourself with any web browser.

---
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com






More information about the fedora-list mailing list