ADSL ISP suggestions?

[Tom Donahoe]

Nelson
    Is this a private or public school? If it's private LavaNet used to have
a discount for private schools. I don't know if they still do. They have a
few people on staff who are OpenSource-clueful.
    Hope this helps
Aloha
Tom Donahoe
> My friend has had Lava.net DSL for quite a while.  Their service seems to be
> very reliable and bandwidth rarely fluctuates (though cable modems can
> usually reach much higher data rates).
> 
> http://www.lava.net/sales/adsl_price.html
> 
> These prices are decent, but watch out because they charge per GB bandwidth,
> and that could easily be eaten up by 20 computers in a lab.  I assume you
> are running a Squid proxy on that Linux server?  That should improve
> bandwidth usage.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Green" <aloha_moon at yahoo.com>
> To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 12:07 PM
> Subject: [luau] Re: ADSL ISP suggestions?
> 
>> 
>> I don't know about pricing schemes, but I can heartily recommend
>> LavaNet in terms of reliability and customer service commitment. I
>> don't think they are the cheapest kids on the block, but perhaps you
>> could negotiate a special rate for and "Educational" use. It doesn't
>> hurt to ask at least.
>> 
>> I do know that I "fixed" at least 3 peoples computers by referring
>> them to LavaNet from various other local and national ISP's -- they
>> got so many dropped connections and busy signals they thought there
>> was a virus or other software problem. Hooked em up with Lavanet, and
>> they were "fixed".
>> 
>> Aloha,
>> 
>> Rob
>> 
> 
> 
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