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| I just subscribed to MediaOne/ATT service and waiting for arrival | of a Router to setup our computers. | | However, after reading your comments about MediaOne/ATT I am doubting | my choise and thinking of swithing to a: | | reliable DSL provider which offers | inclusion of customer's hostname on their DNS. | | Your comments on choosing between: | Verizon, EarthLink, RCN, speackeasy, ... | Has anyone been happy with any of their current services? We've had RCN here since early in the year. Mostly it has been pretty good, but there are a few things that might be worth commenting on. One is that they are still blocking port 80. This may be permanent, unless you pay a LOT more for a commercial site. I also get the impression that their commercial web hosting requires that you put your web pages on their machines, not on your own, but the things I've read about this are a bit confusing and I could be wrong. Their support people don't seem to understand the question ... Most of the time the data rate is pretty fast, though it does have the usual cable problem of slow speed in the early evening hours, when you're competing with everyone else in your neighborhood. The main problem I've seen is that I still have a lot of very slow connections. I noticed this first with ssh, which I mentioned here a month or so back. But it seems to hit browsers, too, in an irregular pattern. The best clues I've found so far are that the hangup is while the programs are connected to a DNS server. RCN's servers seem to be flakey, and fail with a high probability, usually after a delay on the order of a minute. I've set up my own local caching DNS server, which helps a lot with the browsers, but seems to have no effect on ssh. I'm wondering whether there might be some other DNS servers that I should put into resolv.conf before the RCN addresses. Of course, this might all be due to something configured wrong on my machine, but I haven't found any clues about that. My own test programs that call gethostbyname() almost always return instantly.
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