On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Peter Clark wrote: > --- Phil Mendelsohn <mend0070 at tc.umn.edu> wrote: > > > > Cisco 67x, even at the low, low price of $195, is still a little > > steep. > > Or wait till there's more info on the Telocity deal. You get the use > > of the modem free. > I just checked out Telocity. Is there something I am missing? The vote's still out. Nate Carlson, i think, got it. I'm waiting for it. It seems to be a lower B.S. factor than Qwest, though I don't think they're quite as organized. Further, with the MSN/Qwest thing, it makes me happy to stay on the outside. > The deal seems almost too good to be true--1.5Mb down, 128Kb up (I'm > not planning on running a heavy-use server), Linux friendly, static IP > address, modem thrown in for free, and all for $50 a month. Where's > the catch? How their service? How much time from order to delivery? Your rates sound like cable-modem rates to me. Telocity is 768 down, 408 up, like everyone else has said. I don't know if they're Linux friendly, but the big attraction for me is that they have remembered to include the "stripped" model. This is the part that was sort of mentioned in answer to Bob's question about making an ISP Linux friendly. I think that it's important to have knowledgable, reliable, helpful, good service, etc... ISPs. But I think that given the nature of Linux, there's a larger market share that want a "self-serve" ISP. Like someone else said, all I want is a pipe and an IP. To me, the ideal ISP would be like the water company, where it was on before I moved in, on after I left, and they just got told when to start and stop billing. I don't think that's a small-scale money maker, though. I think you have to be a telco for the economies to scale right. -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous