ADSL ISP suggestions?

[Nelson Garcia]

Thanks for all the feedback so far.

It's a private elementary school, less than 200 students.

RoadRunner is out of the question, they want to charge $9.95 per
computer/per month plus their monthly rate. That's close to $250 a month for
21 computers, more if we want a static IP.

Everybody seems to like lavanet but they are more than twice the cost of
flexnet and others, plus they have bandwidth restrictions and the school
cannot afford any $urprises.

Does anyone have any other experiences with other ISPs?

Aloha,
Nelson


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Donahoe [mailto:tdonahoe at midpac.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 12:48 PM
> To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
> Subject: [luau] Re: ADSL ISP suggestions?
>
>
> 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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