Re: [Nolug] cheap high speed connection

Carlos,
   I am ahead of you. Already installed OpenOffice, and it works great. Thanks,

> We use Direct TV (DSL) as well as all our customers, some of them hosting
> their sites on a Linux server, and as far as I know nobody has experienced
> any problems with down time, etc. It costs $49.95 and right now they have
> an special for $29.95 for the first three months. They give you a fixed IP
> address plus 10 MB and 10 e-mail accounts in their server.
>
> By the way, I just installed Open Office (openoffice.org) on both my
> microstuff and my Linux machines and it works quite nice, I thought you
> could use it at your school specially since people want to be able to read
> microstuff office documents! I can read all my ms documents (excell and
> word) and I like the presentation and drawing tools. Try it.
>
> Carlos
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> To: "NOLUG ML" <nolug@patientcarerx.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 9:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] cheap high speed connection
>
>
> > On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 17:18, Dave Prentice wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > > I've never looked into anything faster than a 28.8 phone line
> before,
> > > but I was wondering about hosting a web site for my school. A modem is
> too
> > > slow. In your experience, who's the cheapest provider (cable or
> whatever)
> > > that will let you host a site for a nonprofit organization? Cox says
> they're
> > > about $39 a month plus the basic cable service. Are there cheaper ones?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dave Prentice
> > > prentice@instruction.com
> >
> > Is that a special rate for non-profits? Do they host the
> > web-site, or just run you a wire, and give you a static IP
> > address?
> >
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