[ale] ADSL follow-up

[Jim Kinney]

I have also contacted them about ADSL at home. They ca use the existing Alcatel "modem" I bought from Hellsouth.net. They are currently debugging their first ADSL client and will be rolling out in force soon. They look very promising. 


On Tue, 25 May 1999 09:12:29 David Brooks wrote:
> I did call Atlnet, and I decided that its a much better deal than BellSouth.
> This is what I found out:
> 
> a)  They love Linux (or UNIX in general)
> b)  They "encourage you to run servers" behind your ADSL connection
> c)  They don't care about how many machines you stick on your ADSL
> connection
> d)  They give static IPs and
> e)  They aren't idiots
> 
> The only possible drawback I could see with Atlnet as opposed to BellSouth
> (dot net) is that they only allow you to pull 2 Gigabytes of traffic per
> month without accruing extra cost -- but I figure that this isn't really a
> problem because I'm a "casual" user, and 2 GB of traffic is a rather large
> amount.  Supposing they drop this limitation, they'd probably blow
> BellSouth.net out of the water when it comes to ADSL.
> 
> I would prefer the modem as opposed to the router (mainly because it saves
> me $200 and frankly I can't really afford to dump $400 on one -- if anyone
> has any dealings with Atlnet, see if you can't prod them into finding a
> Linux solution pretty soon <G>)
> 
> Anyhoo-
> --
> david a. brooks
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> :wq

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