[Cialug] Des Moines Area ISPs

[David Champion]

Academician Kula wrote:
> 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....

We should have an ISP's section on our web site.

Don't forget Internetsolver.com (Dave Weis) and Marshallnet.com (Jon 
Clemons) - both owned by CIALUG members, and very linux user friendly.

-dc