[Techtalk] Home Internet access on Linux

[Virginia K. Wills]

caitlynmaire at earthlink.net wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: "Virginia K. Wills" <kathywills at kathywillsfamily.com>
>Sent: Sep 25, 2003 8:15 PM
>To: "techtalk at linuxchix.org" <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
>Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Home Internet access on Linux
>
>Brenda Bell wrote:
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>>>However, your first problem is that you have to be within 3 miles of a
>>>switch.  Our initial high-speed connection was ISDN... we were inside the
>>>limit only by a few hundred feet!!!
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>>Thanks for your reply. I guess this leaves this out as possibly an 
>>option since I live about 8 miles from the nearest town. Looks like we 
>>are stuck with either dial-up or satellite.
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>You may be able to get dual-channel ISDN service at home.  We live out in the 
>sticks, and neither DSL nor cable are available.  We were able to buy dual
>channel (128k) service from our local phone company, Sprint, for just the
>line charges for the two lines and a one-time installation charge.  It comes to
>$56 a month.  We also pay $40 a month to http://www.eskimo.com for all
>we can eat ISDN ISP service.
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>It's not DSL, but it is way, way faster than dialup and doesn't have the 
>latency issues of satellite.  Keith is a gamer (he loves Unreal Tournament) and
>he can play again with the ISDN service and get decent ping times.  I can get 
>live internet audio and video and do downloads which were impractical on a
>dial-up connection.  
>
>I know $96 a month is a lot, but with two of us (and two incomes) we think
>it's worth it.
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>All the best,
>Caity
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I'll have to check it out. The plan we was going to get for the 
satellite was going to be $99 a month for the first year. Our phone 
costs will be decreasing though so that would make up part of the 
difference.

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Kathy Wills

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