Linux-friendly (non-Bell) GTA DSL providers

Ansar Mohammed ansarm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu May 24 04:11:13 UTC 2007


I am running FreeBSD 6.2 using teksavvy and its been great. I also have 7
IPs from them. The 7 IPs with a 5M connection costs as much as a bell
connection.

Also, they don't block any ports. Both Bell and Rogers block lots of
services.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Lennart
> Sorensen
> Sent: May 22, 2007 1:26 PM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Linux-friendly (non-Bell) GTA DSL providers
> 
> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:06:42AM -0700, asdf wrote:
> > I wanted to find out if any of the following GTA high-speed DSL
> providers are known
> > to be Linux/BSD friendly (i.e. Linux/BSD routers work well even though
> they may not
> > be officially supported):
> >
> >    Acanac     http://acanac.ca/
> >    3Web       http://www.get3web.com/
> >    Inter.Net  http://www.ca.inter.net/
> >
> > and also wanted to get recommendations from TLUG members on which (non-
> Bell) DSL
> > provider to choose. Is anyone on this list using one of the above ISPs?
> What's your
> > experience been like?
> >
> > I am currently using Rogers cable internet but recently have been
> experiencing very
> > bad download and upload speeds and am ready to try DSL! I am looking to
> avoid Bell
> > and instead want to try one of the smaller ISPs/providers who seem to be
> offering
> > speeds similar to Bell but at cheaper rates.
> >
> > Never having used DSL before, I also want to find out how well the PPPoE
> client in
> > Linux (and for those of you have experience with it, in OpenBSD and in
> FreeBSD)
> > works . One of the reasons I've stuck with Rogers cable internet for so
> long is that
> > the AccessManager (PPPoE) software was never required and setting up a
> Linux/BSD
> > router/firewall was simple and easy.
> 
> PPPoE on linux works perfectly and is rather trivial to setup.
> 
> Of course if it uses PPPoE it really is Bell DSL systems you are going
> through, although the ISP providing the actual bandwidth to the internet
> is not Bell (usually at least).
> 
> I am currently considering going to DSL from rogers as well.  So far out
> of the suggestions I have had, teksavvy looks promising.
> 
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> Len Sorensen
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