Well, it was fun while it lasted...

[Bryan Pizzuti]

Ahh, the wonders of the American system...since my internet is Cable
Internet, I don't get a choice of ISPs. I just get a choice of methods.
There's ONE cable internet provider that serves my area, or DSL and get more
of a choice.  I'd PREFER the cable...it's faster. 

But I digress ;) 

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of John
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 5:19 PM
Cc: 'Ubuntu Users'
Subject: Re: Well, it was fun while it lasted...

Bryan Pizzuti wrote:
> Yep, tried tin.  I spent last night doing some back and forth with my 
> ISP...turns out I CAN connect to other ISP's servers on port 119 
> before being booted off for not being on their network, so something's 
> screwey on their server. However, so far my ISP's thing is that it 
> must be my OS, and they don't support Linux (Fresh installs of Ubuntu 
> and Debian, and a Slackware-based LiveCD having the same problem, but 
> ONLY with news.optonline.net and not with other news servers?).  Turns 
> out this is an ISP problem...problem now is convincing THEM of that 
> (you'd think they'd listen to a fellow support person, wouldn't you?)
> 
> May have to investigate availability of DSL.

Or even another ISP.

I get really shirty when someone tells me what service I want. Or to install
Windows to test the DSL connexion.


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