[ale] OT: Speedfactory dropping USENET news

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 00:58 -0400, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> 
>>James, I think you made my point.  It's best to avoid DSL if you want to use VOIP easily.
> 
> 
> I would argue that the ease of VOIP use is dependent on the DSL
> provider. As I am a Speakeasy customer, PPPoE is not spoken here so VOIP
> is literally a plug-n-play operation.
> 
> For the multitudes using BellSouth or Earthlink DSL, they will need to
> have a way to authenticate to the provider.

Bellsouth is pushing it down all the isps.  It's cheaper for them to 
provide pppoe.  I don't know why, that's what I've been told.

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Until later, Geoffrey