[ale] Screwed by PPP0E

[James Sumners]

Other than reconfiguring your Speedfactory router, what down time? The
only downtime I have with Speedfactory is when Bellsouth screws
something up that affect's Speedfactory's ability to provide me, and
everyone else, service. I have been using their 3Mb service for almost
a year and haven't had any problems because of PPPoE. Once you
authenticate your session is good until Bellsouth screws up the
network.

I will say this, however. Speedfactory is getting a bit large.

On 31 May 2005 08:47:05 -0400, Christopher Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I came into my remote office today to discover that Speedfactory had
> switched me over to PPPOE.  Apparently they sent one of my partners an
> email and I've not received it.  This causes pain because the only
> reason why I've not switched to PPPOE and their faster speed before was
> because I could not afford the downtime.
> 
> They told me that everyone was forced to go to PPPOE.  Is this true?
> What about Speakeasy.
> 
> I will add this. <flamebait>The only reason I've not switched to
> BS</flamebait> is because of the level of support I get from these
> guys.  They helped me setup PPPOE on Linux twice.  BS would say "Linux
> is not supported".  They've returned my calls and have called me back
> when things began working again.  Now since I'm forced to go  PPPOE my
> only thing keeping me with SF is the support.  Does SE force PPPOE?
> 
> Chris

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