[ale] Not so evil empire

[Brian Stanaland]

Jim Moore wrote:
> This was a timely post in that yesterday went looking at Best Buy for a 
> new cable modem.  Have been using a Linksys which keeps losing the 
> connection.  Oh well the thing's more than five years old and was a hand 
> me down from my brother in law.
>
> So some questions:
> The Motorola SB5101 lists speeds of 38M down and 30M up.  Pray tell what 
> kind of service gives those speeds?
> Second question: I went to cable service when we recently moved and 
> could no longer get satellite TV (heavily wooded lot).  So did a bundle, 
> TV, internet and phone.  Opinions on cable phone service - good?, bad?
> I guess any phone service is better than none.  Phone went out last Thur 
> afternoon and ATT service is scheduled to have it repaired by six this 
> afternoon. 
>
> Jim Moore
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>   
I have Charter telephone. I've had no real problems. The only thing to 
keep in mind is that, unless you put the telephony modem on a UPS, you 
lose phone if you lose power.

--Brian