[NMLUG] Qwest/MSN?

[peter at espen.net (Peter Espen)]

My QWest DSL (1536 Kbps down, 896 Kbps up - I havn't upgraded to the
1.5M yet) with
SWCP as ISP and two SWCP e-mail accounts cost me $29.99/month for the
Qwest DSL on my Qwest bill and $27.76/month for the SWCP ISP service
and two e-mail accounts for a total of about $57.76/month.



On 5/14/06, John K <rosaandme@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I agree with all the below-mentioned points about MSN vs. local ISP's. I had
> NMIA dial-up for awhile and absolutely loved the Linux support. What it
> comes down for some people is price. I haven't checked it out myself but I'm
> told that the premo service with two email accounts ($3 each) w/SWCP is
> about $75/month. That compared to $27/month for first year and then
> $45/month after w/Qwest MSN is a substantial difference. This obviously is a
> choice everyone has to make for themselves and there are a lot factors, most
> of which have been mentioned. (I for example couldn't do Qwest DSL w/NMIA
> b/c my phone line wouldn't allow it, so I had to go with Comcast.)
>
> Right now I'm just trying to get a technical question answered: is it
> possible to set up an email client like Thunderbird (not a webmail client)
> while running Linux using Qwest MSN? Has anyone done this? It seems like it
> should theoretically be possible but I don't know enough to know for sure.
>
> Thanks everyone for your feedback!
>
> Peter Espen <peter@espen.net> wrote:
>  On 5/14/06, Matthew McCleary 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 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 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.
> > > >>
>
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