[ale] Mindspring Question for you guys

[Sean Kilpatrick]

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On Wednesday 09 April 2003 12:20 am, Jeb W. Barger wrote:
> Mindspring cable has moved into my area, and I was curious if Mindspring
> does any port restrictions (POP, SMTP, WWW, etc) ?  Hopefully not, but I
> need to ask before I switch for RoadRunner (who is now charging for
> monthly bandwidth overage.  They only give you 40gigs a month)..

About the only thing I can tell you after nearly a year with
Mindspring/Earthlink DSL service is that they insist on using
PPPOE and when you say Linux, the eyes of the first-level
phone techs roll back inside their heads.  If it aint Winbloze,
they haven't a clue.  As far as I know they do not restrict
any specific ports, and their service plays well with my
Linksys router/DSL bridge.  About the only time their tech
support couldn't help me was when the problem turned out to be 
a sorta short on the Bell South phone line -- not enough to 
screw up the telephone service, but enough to take down the
DSL. Bell South wasn't in any hurry to play nice with one of
Mindspring's customers, but . . . let's just say I can be
firmly persistent about pushing my way to higher levels of
customer service.  I was going through withdrawal (from my
DSL connection) and my sense of humor was as shorted out as
my phone line.

Sean

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