[Cialug] Des Moines Area ISPs

[Jon Clemons]

Actually anyone providing DSL in Des Moines automatically can provide it in 
Ames, Boone
and many other places that are in the same LATA.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D. Joe Anderson" <deejoe@raccoon.com>
To: <cialug@cialug.org>
Cc: <acn-discuss@amescommunity.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Des Moines Area ISPs


> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:23:55PM -0500, Academician Kula wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:18:57PM -0500, Theron Conrey wrote:
>> >
>> > I, like many of you, run servers out of my home.
>> > [ . . . ] so reading slashdot's link today:
>> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/12/ifpi_drafts_code_of_conduct/
>> > rattled me in my socks.
>
> "France's ISPs seemed to have rolled over already."
>
> Harumph.  So much for the vaunted EU privacy protections.  Maybe
> its time for me to move my domains from GANDI.
>
>> >
>> > 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?!?!?)
>
> "Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system."
>
>> > 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....
>
> What he said, mostly.  Except that I don't know exactly where
> they are.  If I need to know, I'll bug Thomas, I guess.
> Basically, all the net-savvy geeks I know in Ames who can get
> DSL use them.  My experience with them over several years now,
> including a move to a new phone number, has gone pretty well.
>
> <plug>If I weren't already hooked up with FNGI, I'd also consider
> CIALUG's own Dave Weiss' InternetSolver.</plug>  Well, if they
> had an Ames point-of-presence (which so far as I know they
> don't, yet.  Is that right, Dave?).  Again, this because I know
> the (some of) the people involved and have seen evidence of
> their cluefulness and helpfulness over time.
>
> -- 
> D. Joe Anderson         http://www.etrumeus.com/~deejoe
> "DRM [...] is to copyright law as a machine gun on
> a motion detector is to real estate law"  -- Don Marti
>
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