[lug] ViaWest and passwords

[Nate Duehr]

Well, I'm at 256K and paying about $100.  I think they've had price
reductions with recent competition -- best way to get an accurate quote
is to just toss 'em a note at sales at rhythms.net.  They'll assign an
account rep to check all the line requirements all the way to following
up to making sure the installer was nice.

The installer laughed when he saw I had a 19" rack-mount rolling rack
full of computers and parts, and didn't even bother to ask where the
Windows machine was to install on after I asked him for my router's IP
and my IP range for my static addresses.  He had a clue, which was very
telling up front.  They block out some amount of time for each install
and he had a few minutes so we chatted Linux during the DSLAM to router
testing.

He had RedHat at home, and was playing with it.  

They also did one other thing to tease me... in order to test for bit
errors, etc... he asked me to ifconfig a box real quick over to the new
IP's (I was on ISDN with static IP's before this) and FTP a file from
one of their FTP servers to test speed and for the guy on the other end
of his Nextel 2-way to check for errors, etc... but they let the DSLAM
and the router train up at whatever fastest speed they can go for the
test.  Imagine my surprise when I found out that it was running
perfectly at 768K and I live almost 15,500' from the DSLAM.  Whew!
Nice.  Wish I could afford to crank it up!

Then he had to go... and he turned it down to my requested speed.
(sniff!)

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:57:45PM -0700, Ian Hall-Beyer wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
> > Not the cheapest, but you get what you pay for.
> 
> What kind of rates are we talking, here? I'm currently paying a couple
> hundred a month.
> 
> -Ian
> 
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Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>

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