RE: [Nolug] Directv demise

See, John, it's not all the bed of roses you expected!

--Joey

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 11:28, Carlos wrote:
> Southern star, one of my clients got rid of them pronto...
>
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> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On
> Behalf Of Joey Kelly
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 8:15 AM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Directv demise
>
> 1. Where you been all weekend? We've had 100+ posts about this very
> subject!
>
> 2. Unless you live out in the woods and have no other choice, I strongly
> disourage anyone from using I55. They have a really bad track record and
> I've never heard anything nice said about them, ever. Plus, I
> interviewed with them 2 years ago and they didn't seem like a company I
> wanted to work for.
>
> Southern Star (local, email John Souvestre about it), Speakeasy and, um,
> I forget who else seemed to be safe bets for what you want to do.
>
> --Joey
>
> On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 10:15, Carlos wrote:
> > It looks like with the demise of Directv we are all scrambling for a
> new
> > DSL provider. I've had Directv for more than three years without
> > experiencing any problems and kind of get used to it. I really liked
> > the easy setup, and the fact that I could use a Linux server to
> > masquerade as many PC as I wanted for the same price. I don't know if
> > I'll be able to find some other provider that will let me do that!! I
> > have a small VPN using SuSE Linux 8.1 that is working fine with
> Directv.
> > Now I don't know if I'll be able to find some other provider that will
> > let me do the same thing without having to pay extra bucks for the
> fixed
> > IP address needed for VPN. The way I see it with Cox aggressively
> > marketing broad band, and Bell South chocking up the "last mile" soon
> > there will be no choice.
> >
> > Has anyone had experience with I55?
> >
> > Carlos
> >
> >
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