[Cialug] Des Moines Area ISPs

[Academician Kula]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:18:57PM -0500, Theron Conrey wrote:
> Fellow Lugites:
> 
> I, like many of you, run servers out of my home.   I have a mail and web 
> server, and I guess my mythtv qualifies as a server, as I remotely can 
> schedule recordings via apache, so reading slashdot's link today: 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/12/ifpi_drafts_code_of_conduct/
> rattled me in my socks.  
> 
> After comcast's leaving a bad taste in my mouth in NJ i swore never to 
> be bogged down by such a repressive eula (You saw him repressing me 
> didn't ya?!?!?) and found Freese-Notis here in Des Moines.  Bridged  IP 
> from Quest, static IP, an agreement that lets me do what I want with my 
> service, blah blah, blah ISP Nirvana.........
> 
> So this question is posed:  What ISP do you use and why?

Freese-Notis, for basically the reasons you listed above, and the fact
that I know where they are at, and can drive down there and pound on
the door if necessary....

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