[ale] Another bad linux/isp scneario...

[Michael A. Smith]

	I think that Microsoft and Intel have brainwashed another ISP.  Sometimes
you feel like you're in the old USSR and Microsoft is the president of the
Communist Party.

	My cable company has the same specs but I luckily had an upgradeable
motherboard and I was able to pick up a chip for about 50 bucks.  I think
the issue is with their installers.  Most of them barely know Windows much
less Linux.  Here's an idea.....  Maybe we could right up a document that
tells the Cable companies how to set up their connections to Linux......




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf
> Of Eric Webb
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 7:53 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Another bad linux/isp scneario...
>
>
>
> Well, after four days of trying to get a hold of Charter
> communications in
> the Coweta county area, I'm going cable modem.  But I have to
> wait until I
> build a Pentium box.
>
> Once again, the bowels of this windows-centric world forced me to bend
> over and beg for their mercy.  They basically wouldn't even
> speak to me
> unless I had a P100+ with 16M.  This kind of precludes my 486 running
> ip_masq, eh?  Oh, and forget trying to talk to a technician.
> If I didn't
> pass the first test, then there's no way it could possibly
> happen, right?
>
> So, fuck them.  I am in the middle of building a box, and they will
> install to it.  But that doesn't prevent me from re-arranging things
> later.  (Maybe I should throw them a loop and have RedHat
> running on it
> when they show up.  Ooh, I know!  Make them install it onto
> my '060 Amiga.
> Hahahahahahahaha!)
>
> If Charter ever expects to grow this service, they're going
> to have to a)
> get more than one person to answer the friggin phone and b)
> be a little
> friendlier.
>
>
> Eric
>