[ale] broadband ISP

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 14:16 -0400, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.

> Say $50.- per month.

> I guess I knew that once a connection is up most isp are Linux
> friendly. But that is the problem: the setup of the modem or whatever
> it is called. I got some negatives and puzzled faces from att people
> when I told them that I need a Linux friendly connection.  I am in the
> Lilburn-Stone Mountain area and, believe it or not, I still have a
> dial-up (by choice) like millions of people across this country.

I've had no problems setting up ATT Uverse RG's (Residential Gateways)
or older aDSL modems (Mostly the WesTel's).  Pretty much, they all have
web gateways that are 100% FireFox compatible.

I've had ATT guys out here for serviced calls (mostly after lightening
strikes have taken out an RG or two) and they've shown no hesitation
over Linux when I'm testing the connections out and we're discussion the
connections and configurations.

DOCSIS cable modems are pretty much "fire and forget", though I haven't
played with any (other than my son's) in years.

Last time I had any problems with a DSL modem was actually when I was
setting up a commercial ATT DSL modem for Callanwolde ages and ages ago
that had a static /26 configured.  That required a bit of a back and
forth with AT&T on the phone but we still worked it out without
resorting to a Windows machine (which I had plenty available there at
the time if I had needed one).

You can buy your own modems for DSL, or cable (DOCSIS), or even UVerse
(complicated provisioning but still doesn't require Winblows).  It's not
all that complicated with any of them anymore.

I guess the ATT people might have given you puzzled looks because the
question simply doesn't come up much any more and the modern equipment
with web interfaces is really OS agnostic now.  I wouldn't have even
bothered to ask.

> Cor

Mike

> On 3/18/14, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 12:33 -0400, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> Anyone have a recommendation for an affordable Linux friendly broadband
> >> ISP?
> >
> > Not sure I understand.  I haven't run into any (lately) that were Linux
> > un-friendly.  I run into a few support noobs that don't know how to
> > speel leenoocks but none that are really anti-linux.  Just don't expect
> > them to hold your hand while you try and figure out how to install
> > Gentoo on your PC.
> >
> > I'm with AT&T UVerse and my son, Scott, is with Comcast.  AT&T pissed me
> > off the other day when protocol 41 (IPv6) stopped working after a
> > gateway update but I think that's because they're preparing to support
> > IPv6 natively (What was that?  The sound of Jingle Bells in Hell???).
> > So I just had to encrypt the tunnel.  The technician I talked to even
> > mentioned that my RG (Residential Gateway) was out of day and shipped me
> > a new one.  No big deal.  Nothing to do with Linux.  Both are completely
> > Linux compatible.
> >
> > My brother, Steve, is with Charter.  He hasn't had any problems with
> > Charter and Linux.
> >
> > In fact, I haven't heard of anyone really having any real "problems"
> > with a particlular ISP and Linux other than they are not going to
> > provide Linux technical support.
> >
> > You say "affordable".  You don't define what "affordable" is or where
> > you are talking.  You want "cheap" and "fast", try Europe.  What I have
> > and Scott has is affordable by either of us.  Your mileage may vary.
> >
> >> TIA
> >> Cor van Dijk
> >
> >
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Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 978-7061 |  mhw at WittsEnd.com
   /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/          | (678) 463-0932 |  http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/
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