Linux-friendly ISPs?

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Thu Aug 26 22:52:45 UTC 2004


Kenneth Porter writes:

> --On Thursday, August 26, 2004 5:52 PM +0000 Mike Markiw III 
> <mmarkiw at speakeasy.net> 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.

I also recommend Speakeasy.  As far as I know, they are the only ISP whose 
terms of service explicitly permit you to run servers on your DSL line with 
static IP addresses.  Furthermore, with a slightly higher level of service 
you may provision up to four IP addresses, at no extra cost.

Depending on which tech you get they may or may not be able to help you with 
Linux-related networking configuration, but they will always be polite and 
won't treat you as if you grew a third eye on your forehead.

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