[Cialug] Re: Cialug Digest, Vol 12, Issue 15

Carter McCann cmccann at novacoast.com
Thu Apr 13 11:20:21 CDT 2006


I did some consulting for Mediacom selling ethernet connections all over Iowa in 2003.  I expect their service to improve significantly very soon.
 
Carter McCann, CNS
Novacoast, Inc
Client Executive
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Today's Topics:

   1. RE: DSL v. Cable (Ankeny) (Carl Olsen)
   2. Re: DSL v. Cable (Ankeny) (Dave J. Hala Jr.)
   3. Re: Iowa Computer shows/sales? (Allen Kiddoo)
   4. RE: Iowa Computer shows/sales? (Nathan C. Smith)
   5. RE: Iowa Computer shows/sales? (Jeffrey C. Ollie)
   6. RE: Iowa Computer shows/sales? (Carl Olsen)
   7. Software Freedom Day 2006 (Kevin C. Smith)
   8. Re: DSL v. Cable (Ankeny) (Tim Wilson)
   9. RE: Software Freedom Day 2006 (Nathan C. Smith)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:35:48 -0500
From: "Carl Olsen" <carl-olsen at mchsi.com>
Subject: RE: [Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)
To: "'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'" <cialug at cialug.org>
Message-ID: <006a01c65ef6$cb4bb520$1c00a8c0 at workstation8>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"

Qwest offers DSL in my area (Saylorville Township), but only for home use.
They don't have anything equivalent to the service I get from Mediacom.  All
I can say is that I rarely experience any interruption in service.  It's
been at least 6 months or longer since I had an interruption and that was
only for a couple of hours.

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Jeffrey C. Ollie
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:06 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)

I'm on the northwest side of Ankeny (near Westwood Elementary) and I've
had DSL service for several years now.  The only downside to DSL in
Ankeny is that some areas can't get DSL because the phone lines are too
old and Qwest doesn't want to recondition them.  The majority of the
problems that I've had with my DSL service were because of a poor
quality DSL modem.  The modems that Qwest sends out now may or may not
be of better quality than the one I received.

Qwest's DSL tech support wasn't very helpful the one time I called them
(the problem ultimately turned out to be a failing DSL modem).  The
woman that I spoke to was obviously following a script and didn't really
know what she was talking about.

I'd recommend _not_ renting a DSL modem from Qwest.  Best Buy has a
couple of models for a reasonable price.  In fact they are the same
modems that Qwest would ship you if you were to rent one from Qwest.

Jeff



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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:56:48 -0500
From: "Dave J. Hala Jr." <dave at 58ghz.net>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Message-ID: <1144933008.2175.362.camel at dsl-69.marshallnet.com>
Content-Type: text/plain

I use Marshallnet DSL for business. There are very reliable and have
ample bandwidth. They also provide really good virus/scanning and spam
filtering with their email. 

Excellant service.


:) Dave

On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 07:26, Alan Maupin wrote:
> Based on price vs performance which vendor would you recommend.
> Marshallnet seems to have the best prices going for a 3-5MB down and 1MB
> up for $25 a month, but I know nothing about the reliability of the
> service.  Are you familiar with this company?
> 
> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 23:46 -0500, John.Lengeling at radisys.com wrote:
> > 
> > > If anyone has a personal suggestion on what they consider the
> > superior
> > > Internet service for this area is I would appreciate the tip.
> > 
> > I have had Qwest DSL with Freeze Notis for 3-4 years.  I generally
> > have 1-2 small outages per year which may last from 30min-1.5hrs. 
> > So I have seen about 99.99% uptime.  They also provide static IP
> > addresses for hosting servers.  It also seems that people with the
> > dialup DSL service have more problems than people with full time DSL
> > connections. 
> > 
> > I generally recommend the following high speed options to people in
> > order of descending preference. I hate to recommend Satellite, but if
> > that is your only choice it is better than dialup. 
> > 
> > 1 - DSL 
> > 2 - Cable 
> > 3 - Prairie Inet 
> > 4 - Satellite
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:16:01 -0500
From: "Allen Kiddoo" <adk at 52761.com>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Iowa Computer shows/sales?
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Message-ID: <20060413120659.M57640 at 52761.com>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset=iso-8859-1

For computer stuff another option is ham radio 'fests'.
I am a ham and attend a few near eastern IA during the year.

Most hamfests are at least 50% computers now days.
Des Moines has at least one. Cedar Rapids, Ottumwa, Washington,
Davenport are others to check out. Largest in my area are Princeton
and Peoria IL. Do a search on 'hamfest' and a 'city name' to get details.

Allen Kiddoo, KA0STA

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:21:03 -0500
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Iowa Computer shows/sales?

> Tim Wilson wrote:
> > On 4/12/06, Anthony Jeffries <ajeffri at loopysite.org> wrote:
> >> Tim Wilson wrote:
> >>
> >>> There's the "Super Computer Sale" at the fairgrounds in Des Moines.
> >>> That's usually held Mother's day weekend, and the weekend before
> >>> Thanksgiving.  It has drastically gone down hill.  I've heard people
> >>> (myself included) refer to it as the "Stupid Computer Sale".
> >> Regarding computer sales, the best place for cheap new stuff is online.
> >> Offline, there's the various surplus sales, like ISU Surplus in Ames on
> >> Wednesdays from noon to 3. The DOT in Ames also has surplus sales, but
> >> they're less frequent, but those are for used/unusual equipment, like
> >> Sun Ultras or VAXen. I think there are other sales around. Google is
> >> your friend here.
> >>
> > 
> > I think there's another state sale in Des Moines.  I believe it is held by
> > the corrections dept, or something along those lines.  Anyone have any info?
> >
> 
> http://www.iaprisonind.com/html/services/surplus/state_geninfo.asp
> 
> http://www.cialug.org/ewiki/?id=FAQ
> 
> -barry
> 
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:05:29 -0500
From: "Nathan C. Smith" <smith at ipmvs.com>
Subject: RE: [Cialug] Iowa Computer shows/sales?
To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group' <cialug at cialug.org>
Message-ID: <E10143BCF174D211BB2E00805FCBDD23057239C2 at DSMEXCH>
Content-Type: text/plain

This is interesting:

Computers, Complete: $.10 per MHz

Never seen them priced that way before, even though it usually boils down to
that.

> 
> 
> http://www.iaprisonind.com/html/services/surplus/state_geninfo.asp
> 
> http://www.cialug.org/ewiki/?id=FAQ
> 
> -barry


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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:21:15 -0500
From: "Jeffrey C. Ollie" <jeff at ocjtech.us>
Subject: RE: [Cialug] Iowa Computer shows/sales?
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Message-ID: <1144938076.2734.16.camel at lt16585.campus.dmacc.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

DMACC donates a lot of our older computers to Iowa Prison Industries.
Unfortunately the ones we donate are way out of date.  The might make a
decent linux-based router/firewall though.  Don't know what kind of
stuff other agencies give to Prison Industries though...

On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 09:05 -0500, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> This is interesting:
> 
> Computers, Complete: $.10 per MHz
> 
> Never seen them priced that way before, even though it usually boils down to
> that.
>
> > http://www.iaprisonind.com/html/services/surplus/state_geninfo.asp
> > 
> > http://www.cialug.org/ewiki/?id=FAQ

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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:13:50 -0500
From: "Carl Olsen" <carl-olsen at mchsi.com>
Subject: RE: [Cialug] Iowa Computer shows/sales?
To: "'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'" <cialug at cialug.org>
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I bought 4 used monitors at Iowa Prison Insdustries a couple weeks ago, and
I'm very happy with all 4 of them.  I got 2 19-inche monitors and 2 17-inch
monitors for $70.

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Jeffrey C. Ollie
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:21 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: RE: [Cialug] Iowa Computer shows/sales?

DMACC donates a lot of our older computers to Iowa Prison Industries.
Unfortunately the ones we donate are way out of date.  The might make a
decent linux-based router/firewall though.  Don't know what kind of
stuff other agencies give to Prison Industries though...

On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 09:05 -0500, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> This is interesting:
> 
> Computers, Complete: $.10 per MHz
> 
> Never seen them priced that way before, even though it usually boils down
to
> that.
>
> > http://www.iaprisonind.com/html/services/surplus/state_geninfo.asp
> > 
> > http://www.cialug.org/ewiki/?id=FAQ




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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:59:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Kevin C. Smith" <kevin at linuxsmith.com>
Subject: [Cialug] Software Freedom Day 2006
To: cialug at cialug.org
Message-ID: <4651.66.43.220.240.1144943991.squirrel at linuxsmith.com>
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1

SFD will be September 16th this year.

I've started the wiki. Sign up there to help.
In order to get free stuff from the SFD we need a team of a certain size.
The rules for this year haven't been announced yet. The more that sign up
the better though.

The libraries are not taking reservations until July for September, so I
will announce the location in July. I'm going to try the Main (New) library
first.

I will not make the meeting this month, so lets put SFD on the agenda for
May and I will come prepared to start the planning then.


-- 
Kevin C. Smith



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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:00:48 -0500
From: "Tim Wilson" <tim_linux at wilson-home.com>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Message-ID:
	<5a9568c20604130900p1eba542fma521315196eb0d2e at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

I had to unplug and plugin my cable modem again last night.  I've had lots
of little outages with Mediacom.  Frankly, the little outages are worse than
a major one.  It gets frustrating to go to a page and it loads fine, only to
click a link on the page and you get a timeout error.  Last night, GMail
actually reported a corrupt page to me.  I'm guessing during the transfer,
the javascript client didn't get everything it was expecting so it reported
corruption, and I couldn't do anything until I did a reload of the page.  I
can't trust Mediacom with my internet service, and they want me to trust
them with my phone service?  Seriously?  And now they're rolling out 10Mb
service?  C'mon, shouldn't you have rock-solid service before adding new
services?

On 4/13/06, Carl Olsen <carl-olsen at mchsi.com> wrote:
>
> Qwest offers DSL in my area (Saylorville Township), but only for home use.
> They don't have anything equivalent to the service I get from
> Mediacom.  All
> I can say is that I rarely experience any interruption in service.  It's
> been at least 6 months or longer since I had an interruption and that was
> only for a couple of hours.
>
> Carl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Jeffrey C. Ollie
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:06 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)
>
> I'm on the northwest side of Ankeny (near Westwood Elementary) and I've
> had DSL service for several years now.  The only downside to DSL in
> Ankeny is that some areas can't get DSL because the phone lines are too
> old and Qwest doesn't want to recondition them.  The majority of the
> problems that I've had with my DSL service were because of a poor
> quality DSL modem.  The modems that Qwest sends out now may or may not
> be of better quality than the one I received.
>
> Qwest's DSL tech support wasn't very helpful the one time I called them
> (the problem ultimately turned out to be a failing DSL modem).  The
> woman that I spoke to was obviously following a script and didn't really
> know what she was talking about.
>
> I'd recommend _not_ renting a DSL modem from Qwest.  Best Buy has a
> couple of models for a reasonable price.  In fact they are the same
> modems that Qwest would ship you if you were to rent one from Qwest.
>
> Jeff
>
> _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug at cialug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>



--
Tim
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:02:02 -0500
From: "Nathan C. Smith" <smith at ipmvs.com>
Subject: RE: [Cialug] Software Freedom Day 2006
To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group' <cialug at cialug.org>
Message-ID: <E10143BCF174D211BB2E00805FCBDD23057239C5 at DSMEXCH>
Content-Type: text/plain

Argh!  Real close to one of my favorite days of the year.
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin C. Smith [mailto:kevin at linuxsmith.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:00 AM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Subject: [Cialug] Software Freedom Day 2006
> 
> 
> SFD will be September 16th this year.
> 
> I've started the wiki. Sign up there to help.
> In order to get free stuff from the SFD we need a team of a 
> certain size. The rules for this year haven't been announced 
> yet. The more that sign up the better though.
> 
> The libraries are not taking reservations until July for 
> September, so I will announce the location in July. I'm going 
> to try the Main (New) library first.
> 
> I will not make the meeting this month, so lets put SFD on 
> the agenda for May and I will come prepared to start the 
> planning then.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kevin C. Smith
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug at cialug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
> 


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