On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:54:16PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: :I have heard good things about shore.net as well. In fact I was once :offerred a sysadmin job by them, and toured their facility. They're a :very clueful group.
I know some excellent folks who've worked for shore.net and they still recommend it now the've moved on to the .com startup world. I use Verizon DSL (used to be Bell Atlantic, the local TelCo). Tech support is useless, IP is purely dynamic (I use a dynamic DNS service through http://www.dhs.org), and I've found that typicly expect about one connection drop per week (usually brief). If you've good with networking and such like, and don't need a rock solid server platform they're OK. MediaOne is known to have some periodic routing problems, but based on what I've heard I'd take them over Verizon. I've heard a lot of people with similar problems with RCN to what Noah describes, I'd avoid them like the plague. I know most of this is second hand, but as an admin I get to deal with people's remote connections a bit, if only to determine where the failure is. HTH, -Jon
