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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Boston area: which ISP would you recommend



On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:26:02PM -0500, Vinod Kurup wrote:

:Well, just to add one (kinda) dissenting opinion... I use RCN and they're OK.
:Not great, but usable. Their connection drops have gone from 2-3/day
:to about 1-2/week and my IP address hasn't changed in about 3 months.

Well that's two people here who seem to have no *more* problems with
RCN than I'm having with Verizon.  And as I said (and would like to
stress) Verizon is the only provider I've had in the Boston area,
other than the dial up server I run.

I'm in the middle of one of the more frustrating problems I have with
Verizon.  The connection died and woun't restart.  I can see the
request from my machine:

tcpdump: listening on eth1
10:17:00.778047 PPPoE PADI [Service-Name] [Host-Uniq UTF8]
10:17:01.788096 PPPoE PADI [Service-Name] [Host-Uniq UTF8]
10:17:03.798461 PPPoE PADI [Service-Name] [Host-Uniq UTF8]
10:17:07.807986 PPPoE PADI [Service-Name] [Host-Uniq UTF8]

no response from the Westell box, can't tell if it's that or the TelCo
equipment at the other end.  Can't debug it with Verizon because they
don't support Linux and Win95 (my kids' machine) doesn't have the
debuging tools to verify that the problem isn't with that computer
(which I know it isn't).  All I get out of tech support is "Reboot,
Retry, Reinstall", by which time the problem has passed and they think
this worked...

-Jon



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