Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 07:55:09 -0800 (PST) From: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> To: John Purser <johnmpurser@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Rohrer <rohrer@hawaii.edu> Subject: RE: FreeBSD ISP list ? Message-ID: <XFMail.000223075509.wwoods@cybcon.com> In-Reply-To: <000901bf7e0d$44b43a80$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com>
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I can atest the FreeBSD on DSL works gret here in Portland....I am on it. If ya need a hand drop me an email and we'll see what we can do. On 23-Feb-00 John Purser wrote: > 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! Where ya meet, when? > 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 ---------------------------------- E-Mail: William Woods <bwoods2@uswest.net> Date: 23-Feb-00 Time: 07:53:58l FreeBSD 3.4 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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