[ale] just a note about Atlantic Nexus

[Lightner, Jeff]

A neighbor of mine had mentioned Awful Telephone & Telegraph was telling
her she needed a second T1 for her office of ~40 people.   They don't
have any servers so apparently use it only for outbound connectivity and
it sounded like overkill to me.

I suggested she call Atlantic Nexus based to see what they have to say
and noted that I've seen many strong recommendations for their service
on this list but haven't used it myself.   I told her I wasn't saying to
dump AT&T but simply that it might be a good idea to get a second
opinion as to what she really "needs".  For some reason when I was
talking to her I couldn't think of the other recommendations I've seen
on this list.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Kinney
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 7:35 AM
To: ale at pcartwright.com; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] just a note about Atlantic Nexus

Nice! :-)

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com>
wrote:
> well, we got hit by a nice BIG storm last night. I was watching TV (
> plugged into an UPS) and I heard a very LOUD BOOM!!!! I mean NEARBY &
> BIG. when the picture finally garbled on my TV from DirecTV lack of
> signal, I went to the PC to look up wsb weather. nada, no DSL. PC is
> behind APC UPS, and dialtone goes through APC UPS. Later Milt from
atnex
> said NOT to put the dialtone through the APC it degrades the signal..
> anyway, I figured it was the storm hit the main box & forgot about it.
> about 7:45pm ( right at the END of a THRILLER movie right before the
bad
> guy gets it!!) Milt from Atlantic Nexus calls ME to ask about my DSL.
He
> was getting no signal.. We played with it for a few, then he had me
plug
> in my OLD modem & it synced up.. so my ADSL modem got fried. It is
> plugged into an APC UPS & the dialtone went through it too. We got me
up
> & going with the old modem & he is shipping me a replacement ADSL
modem
> today. He even remembered that my Linksys router hung off the ADLS
modem
> for wireless was running DD-WRT !
> THIS is why I got business-class service & got it from Atlantic Nexus
(
> he calls it net2atlanta.com, the business side).
>
> I just wanted to pass along a feel-good story after a bad night..
> and we got 0.86 inches of rain in about an hour..
> YMMV
>
> --
> Paul Cartwright
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