[nflug] Verizon DSL

[David Mangani]

Thanks to those that replied. I am simply looking to save some money.
My cable bill is like 122/ month with only bronse programming and HSI.
I figure I can save about 40-50 per month going with verizon for HSI
and backing down my programing level on the ole tube. Just wanted to
be sure that DSL would be okay. I had read some confusing posts after
googling. seems some people had a horrible time getting DSL to work
with linux. yet others seemed to think it work out of the box. Just
wanted some local input. I appreciate it. I have had pretty poor luck
with adelphia anyways. My internet goes out at LEAST 3 times per
month. I've had all the cabling replaced... I had 3 different modems
installed. I have no idea why. It just plan is persnickety. I've had
long spells where e-mail simply doesn't work. ( 3-7 days ) They are
good with giving credit, but that isn't the point. I'm sure verison
has/will have issues too, but at least I'll be paying less for those
issues. Thanks again.

Dave


On 6/17/06, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> robert at net261.com wrote:
> > On 6/16/2006 10:29 PM, nflug at nflug.org wrote to ROBERT WOLFE:
> >
> > -> Hi all
> > ->     I was looking for some input into using Verizon DSL with linux and
> > -> also using it with a wired router. I have a windows box and a linux
> > -> box I'd like to share this DSL line with. I am currently on adelphia
> > -> using a wired router. I'd like to keep my hardware( router) and simply
> > -> exchange the cable for the DSL. Is DSL linux friendly? Will it work
> > -> with an off the shelf netgear router? Any input is welcome.
> >
> > Dave, stay with Adelphia.  I tried Verizon before coming to work for Adelphia
> > and then switched to cable shortly thereafter.  Much happier.  I mean you
> > can feel free to do what you want to, but I have to admit, Adelphia is much
> > more Linux friendly in my opinion.
> >
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> Talk like this is what starts false misconceptions. Whether it is DSL or
> Cable makes no difference when it comes to Linux, Windows, MAC, UNIX,
> whatever, it's all TCP/IP UDP and DNS. In particular your DSL will be
> perfectly fine with Linux as opposed to Cable. Now, what will make a
> difference and it will make all the difference in the world is, DNS. DSL
> has notoriously bad DNS servers and they will make the DSL connection
> seem slow and unresponsive. If it can't resolve the name in a timely
> manner, you will not go anywhere and it will make your connection seem
> slow. I know of Verizon's 2 main DNS servers (at least the once I see
> get assigned via DHCP all the time) that are unbelievably bad. I have
> had customers complain about there DSL connection and I would change
> their DNS servers (like to ours) and the difference was instantaneously
> faster. The customers are always amazed at this and the fact that
> Verizon seems to be unaware or uncaring about it, like these DNS servers
> are sitting in a closet somewhere and never monitored, who knows. And
> for $14.95 per month for DSL, there is no comparison as far as I'm
> concerned, DSL wins hands down.
>   I do have one problem with DSL of late though and that is the way they
> are handing out IP's via their DHCP pools. It is ridiculous, I see them
> change IP's ALL the time, I've even seen it change from 1 hour to the
> next (with no provoking mechanism) and at least daily. I don't see what
> they are accomplishing with this but it is aggravating. And what makes
> this even worse is, I had one guy send me an email the other day and it
> got caught into my spam folders by spamassassin. Why you say? Part of
> the points it scored to put it in there was increased because the
> sending IP they had from their DSL was previously put into a black list
> because someone was abusing services with that IP previously. I just
> don't like the possibility that that can even happen, but something like
> that could happen whether your on Cable or DSL. I suppose one good thing
> out of the constant IP changing with DSL is, if you were assigned such
> an offending IP, it wouldn't be long before it changed. Another score
> for DSL.
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