Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

[Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com>]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 18:11 -0600, Dale wrote:
> Ognjen Bezanov wrote:
> 
> >  I dont want to have to come home and ssh in to restart everytime my
> > ISP reboots its M$ Servers.
> 
> It's funny that you say that.  One of the first things I asked my ISP
> when I was looking for one, what OS do you use?  If they didn't use
> *nix, I was going to keep looking.  It is very rare that I have any
> trouble either.
> 
> Another thing I like about mine is the service.  When I call them, I get
> a live human being that answers the phone.  They don't have a automated
> thingy, just people.  I have talked to the owner once and have actually
> had the guys that run the network to call me for help.  I am the only
> one that runs Linux with the logs turned on and it gives them a lot of
> info if they are having any connection problems.  I guess windoze
> doesn't.  They call me and get me to connect and see what happens.  If I
> can't connect, I call them back and read them the log files and the boo
> boo message.  They had the login/password file get borked once.  They
> said it was there but it was messed up.  They took the one from their
> back-ups and up it went.  We were surfing again.  :)
> 
> Ever consider switching ISPs or are you stuck with the one you have? 
> I'll switch for DSL but that is about it.  Dial-up sucks, 26K is all I
> get here.
> 
> Dale
> :) :)
> 
> -- 
> To err is human, I'm most certainly human.

My wife says that we can try SBC DSL after the new year starts (when we
can afford it.)  I just hope that I can get everything converted over to
PPP....

 


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