Seeking good, inexpensive DSL ISP

[John Olson]

www.fastq.com is worth a look.  I know two people who have fastq and
their uptime and bandwidth availability is good.  Running servers is no
problem, and they have various static IP packages.  re: ports, all I
know is that they blocked ports 137, 138 and 139 at one time.  Those
people I know say service is not great but is better than most.

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Vaughn
Treude
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 7:51 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Seeking good, inexpensive DSL ISP


Peter,
    That could be the problem, that the business customers get priority.
Service used to be OK, but lately I've had more difficulty getting
through. Perhaps they've had a layoff, and stretched their support staff
too thin.  I figured I'd give them one more chance, and I did get
through to them today, but the haven't resolved the problem yet.
Actually, it was two problems - why did a lose all my PLUG messages a
few weeks back, and why did I lose practically everything else a couple
of weeks ago?  (As for this post, I lucked out - I discovered that my
old Qwest account is still active!)  I'm at the point where I'm very
dependent on email, and if I don't get my messages, potential clients
will think I'm ignoring them.
    I spoke to both Junior and Jeremy today, and they said that
something about a spam filter gone crazy - that somebody complained
about one of the companies they hosted, and they'd gotten automatically
stuck on the spammer list, and had been unable to get off it yet,
because it would take several days to get off the list.  It seems
counterintuitive, though.  If Getnet was blamed for spamming, wouldn't
the messages I send be bounced back, rather than blocking me from
receiving?  Or do they block all the traffic?  It sounds disgustingly
like a denial-of-service attack in disguise.  When I was doing the
newsletter for my IEEE consulting group, I recall a few incidents where
my messages hit some kind of spam filter and bounced back.  Some of the
ISP's (Primenet was pretty fussy, I recalled) didn't seem to like
messages with many addressees.  Others didn't like my vtreude@ieee.org
alias, when I was using that.
    Oh well.  Maybe it's not Getnet's fault.  But if they can't address
a problem like this as number one priority, I don't think they're worth
staying with.

Vaughn



----- Original Message -----
From: <az_pete@cactusfamily.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: Seeking good, inexpensive DSL ISP


>
> I surprised you're unhappy with GetNet.  I have several sites hosted 
> with
them and I've found them to be the best
> hosting company I've ever been with.  I had several problems with one 
> of
my sites and, at my request, they recompiled
> Apache and PHP with some features that I required (and that was on a
shared hosting box!).  Whenever I call they fix
> the problem while I'm on the phone with them.  If a problem does take 
> too
long to fix while I'm on the phone, it will
> always be finished within an hour or 2.  I have absolutley no 
> complaints
with them at all.
> Perhaps, they give their business customers better service than 
> DSL/dialup
customers.  At one time, I was with Inficad
> dial up service (which GetNet bought last year) and left because of
horrible service.
>
>
> Just my 2 cents.
> Peter
>
>
> On 17 Oct 2002 at 13:02, Vaughn Treude wrote:
>
> > Hello all:
> > A while back there was a thread on DSL ISP's in the Phoenix area.  
> > I'm currently with Getnet, which is cheap, but their customer 
> > service stinks (actually, it's nonexistant.)  I'm also unhappy 
> > because Getnet appears
to be
> > filtering PLUG messages (and a couple of newsletters I intentionally
> > subscribed to) from my email.   I'm looking for another service in
which
I
> > can get (a) compatibility with Qwest's DSL Deluxe (640kb) service 
> > and
(b) at
> > least 3 email addresses  and (c) a price in the area of $20 per 
> > month
(or
> > maybe a little more.)   The services that were mentioned in last
month's
> > messages included FastQ and EMR, both of which appear to be 
> > considerably higher in price.  (And I really don't really care about

> > a static IP.)  A third company was Deru, which appears to be in the 
> > $20 area.  Another service someone recommended was PiplineUSA, which

> > runs around $22.  Does anyone have any experience with any of these?

> > Any other
recommendations?
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Vaughn Treude
> > Nakota Software, Inc.
> >
> >
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