From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 8 20:18:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56FAE37C107 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:18:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA98352; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:19:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:19:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISP in Si Valley In-Reply-To: <20000607114248.A307@dialin-client.scitec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I know someone who lives out there who uses meer.net, I believe they run FreeBSD, although I am not sure how much they charge. I just remember the person being able to get ahold of people there who were quite clued in to FreeBSD. On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: >I hate to post the ol' "FreeBSD Friendly ISP in Here>" question, but the maillist search is not up for the task. > >I just relocated to San Jose, CA, and I know there are plenty of >readers of this list in that area. Right now I am temporarily housed >so coax cable or DSL are probably not worthwhile options. All I want >is a local phone number to dial-up to. I'd just go with one of the >national mega-ISPs, but the CDs they send out run on Windoze, which I >do not. I can imagine the phone conversation now trying to extract the >information needed to configure my PPP from one of their help desk >drones. I shudder. > >Anyone have a suggestion for a local ISP in the Valley? I just want to >call and connect, a maildrop is good but not necessary. No frills, low >bills. If anyone can reassure me that using one of the big guys, AOL, >ATT, etc., is not too painful (or the trick to make it painless), that >would be just as good. > >Thanks. >-- >Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message