From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 23 6:50:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2477A37B594 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 06:50:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johnmpurser@home.com) Received: from C37259A ([24.9.57.64]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <20000223145008.BPXR14903.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@C37259A>; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 06:50:08 -0800 Reply-To: From: "John Purser" To: "'Matt Rohrer'" Cc: Subject: RE: FreeBSD ISP list ? Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 06:50:04 -0800 Message-ID: <000901bf7e0d$44b43a80$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt, US West uses FreeBSD for some things up here and I believe you can get DSL for reasonable rates in (some areas of) Portland. The next best for bandwidth is AT&T's @home service. I heard they opened it up in Portland so you don't have to use @home as an ISP. That's a good thing, they're pretty lousy in this neighborhood! We also have a FreeBSD user's group up here. Welcome to the neighborhood! John Purser -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of wellsian Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 11:34 PM To: Matt Rohrer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD ISP list ? Not a bad idea. Remember though, most of what makes happy systems is the administration, and customer support when the inevitable problems occur. I'd be happy with any of BSDI/Open/Net/FreeBSD, _if_ the company has clued-in support. The best system can be pretty awful without smarts and compassion behind it. And don't expect many to run all their operation on a single OS. I can say from experience that it's essentially impossible to satisfy all ISP operations and customer requirements with any single OS. That said I'd pick a batch of 503/971 providers from thelist.com and start firing off OS queries to support@. This should give you a small taste of their relative support capabilities as well. And you might just bounce your question off the freebsd-isp@freebsd.org list. You're sure to get a few replies from alert Oregonians. Good luck, enjoy the green, but take your umbrella. :) Dave On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Matt Rohrer wrote: > Does anyone know of a list of ISPs using FreeBSD? I am planning to > move to Portland OR, and would like to spend my $ with an intelligent > company. > > If such a list does not exist, I would be willing to create one and > host it on my server. > > Thanks. > > > -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message