On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:18:41AM -0700, Derek Neighbors wrote:
> If you are talking the old SpeedChoice turned Sprint.  I made this 
> change within the last six months.  The downstream is similar. 
> Sometimes on SpeedChoice I could pull over 3MB down if the right 
> situations were happening.  HOWEVER, upstream was slower than a 28.8K 
> modem.  This is the number one reason a switched (as well as wanting a 
> lower price point)  I have been happy so far.

Well, I never got download speeds like that:).  I think about the
fastest download I clocked was from ftp.kernel.org at about 150 KBPS
or so; not sure how that calcs out to MB bandwidths but if Cox is 3MB,
then...

> Their SMTP servers seem to work okay for me.  I have never understood 
> this fetish with running own SMTP server for home email.  I have never 
> understood running a mail server on broadband for home email for that 
> matter, but that's a different rant.

I host inbound SMTP because I have several users here on my own
machine here at home so I host the mail.  I have in the past, captured
all multiple users' e-mail on an outside server and used fetchmail and
its multidrop feature to distribute it on my internal linux box.  As
for outbound, most linux mail systems seem to default to smtp directly
to destinations.  I can set my exim to 'smart-host'; that's no real problem.

> If you have DSL in your area I would investigate it as well if more 
> solid connectivity is required and you want to run servers.  Especially 
> if you can get VDSL.

My line doesn't qualify for DSL so... never heard much of VDSL.  I
once looked into an SDSL option but that failed the loop test too so
it looks like Cox is the only answer for new users in my neighborhood
since Sprint isn't taking on any new customers and hasn't for over a
year now.

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