[NMLUG] Qwest/MSN?

[peter at espen.net (Peter Espen)]

On 5/14/06, Matthew McCleary <matthew.mccleary@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've got to disagree there, though keep in mind that I'm not in New Mexico
> -- I'm in Trinidad, Colorado. I've had Qwest/MSN 1.5 Mbps DSL service since
> mid-December and have had virtually zero downtime and hardly any flakiness.
> If I had to assign numbers I'd say I get a glitch maybe once every two
> months or so, and it's always short-duration (2 hours or less).

Of course, that assign IP numbers thang is an ISP function (in your case MSN).
Once every two months or so for 2 hours or less sounds pretty bad to me.

I've had QWEST DSL for almost 8 years now.  For a while initially I
had Qwest.net as an ISP until they bailed and started migrating
everyone over to MSN.  At that point, I bailed and went to local ISP
service with Qwest DSL and have been very, very happy.  Another thing
about most (not all, but most) local ISPs is that they are usually
quite linux savvy and happy to support you if you're running
linux...with MSN you'll typically get call-support-dropped faster than
a hot potato as soon as you mention that bad 5 letter word: LINUX.

There's absolutely no reason I can see to use MSN, especially if
you're a linux user.  You'll also tend to get much better internet
routing characteristics from a good local ISP, much better  than MSN
can provide.

>
> Matthew
>
> On 5/14/06, Michael W. Folsom <mwfolsom@swcp.com> wrote:
> > I second that idea -
> >
> > You don't have to deal with the MSN barf - they run a bad shop and you
> > are headed to call tree hell.
> >
> > Frankly there is a more basic reason - I've worked with a few folks that
> > went the Qwest/MSN route and the connection doesn't seem that stable.
> > My Qwest/SWCP DSL connection has been up for 5+ years - down only 3
> > times, all of which were my fault.
> >
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > Peter Espen wrote:
> > > I recommend QWest DSL and I also recommend avoiding MSN.  Go with a
> > > local ISP instead.  I use SWCP and have always been satisfied.
> > >
> > > On 5/13/06, John K <rosaandme@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >> I have a friend who's experimenting with Linspire and is thinking about
> > >> taking advantage of Qwest's $26.99/month DSL promotion w/MSN as the
> ISP.
> > >> Does anyone have this service up and running w/Linux? We're pretty
> > >> sure he
> > >> could get online w/out a problem but we're not so sure if we'd be
> > >> able to
> > >> set up and use an e-mail client like Thunderbird. It seems like it
> > >> should be
> > >> possible but neither of us are experts and you never know with MSN.
> > >>