[Linux-Anyway] Re: Feel like messing things up
- From: Meph Istopheles <meph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 08:37:57 -0700 (PDT)
> > What, there are no other providers with a better deal?
> > Even France must have a few options.
> Not here. There is only ONE provider with ADSL access in this
> particular neck of the woods: the State-owned "wanadoo.fr" (or
> should that be "wanabee.fr"...)
Aieee! It sucks when you don't have options. Until recently,
I lived just a couple of miles away from this apartment. There,
my only option for adsl was Verizon who wanted approximately
$40.00 a month for 256/64 down & up. Worse, becasue they were
using a long out-dated co owned by another company, I'd have odd
outages, drops in speed, etc. But when it worked, a tracroute
to a server anywhere on the planet would show very few nodes to
get to it.
Now, with Qwest (who will likely be bought out in the not too
distant future because of SEC troubles), I'm paying approximately
$30.00 for 640/256 down & up. But, naturally, just to get to a
server down the coast in California, I have to go through at
least six Qwest servers &/or routers just to get to a main hub.
Then, it bounces round.
And to get to my Web host on the East coast has always been
wild. Although today it's Sprint/Sprintlink isn't horrible:
11 att-gw.sea.sprint.net (192.205.32.174) 58.088 ms 60.132 ms
56.855 ms
12 sl-bb24-chi-11-2.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.31) 119.942 ms
120.971 ms 119.917 ms
13 sl-bb26-nyc-14-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.55) 116.024 ms
113.333 ms 117.656 ms
14 sl-bb11-nyc-10-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.7.118) 115.267 ms
113.083 ms 114.020 ms
15 sl-masc-4-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.228.22) 124.419 ms
124.890 ms 124.125 ms
I normally have to go through two to three times as many hops to
get to the server.
Broadband. Heh. It's all relative.
> > I'm curioous: Do you have a static ip at all?
Meph
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