[ale] Bellsouth DSL

[Geoffrey]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 19:49 -0500, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> 
>>Ditto on the Speedfactory.
> 
> Speedfactory gets a lot of kudos here, but aren't they really just a
> middleman for a DSL line that goes directly from your house/business to
> BellSouth?  I understand that SF may provide some pop3/smpt/www/dns
> servers other than those provided by BS, but your next statement seems
> to suggest that you don't need these.

As long as Bellsouth retains their monopoly, they will always have a 
hand it this.  I will say that I've also gotten wonderful support from 
Speedfactory.  Although you're still going over the Bellsouth wire, it's 
nice to have the good people at Speedfactory working for you when it 
comes to issues.  Bellsouth just bloody does not care.

>>I deplore any ISP that requires me to use their POP3 and SMTP servers rther
>>than my own (I use Yahoo Mail and pay for the privilege).  
> 
> I use Yahoo too (obviously), so why do you need POP3 and SMTP ports open
> on your upstream network?

It really doesn't matter why he want's it.  Why question freedom to 
choose?  I will say it's quite difficult to test such a setup for a 
client if your isp is blocking those ports.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey