[SLL] Nationwide Internet: melting down?

[Nicholas Bodley]

Although Speakeasy is quite costly, their service has been excellent, and  
they give a few days' notice by e-mail for planned outages.

They also let you do anything reasonable and decent with your account.  
Skype is OK, a server is OK, fixed IP standard*, and they were even  
encouraging their customers to set up wireless access points to the 'Net,  
and suggesting that their customers could charge others for the service.
*discouraging how many Linux distros (in my experience) make it difficult  
for the semi-technical to set up for a fixed IP

[Rather OT] -- Just don't try to take two hours composing a thoughtful,  
long e-mail message using their Web mail. If you must, though, do periodic  
saves of the text, word-processor style, although saving means explicitly  
highlighting all text, and putting it into, say, a text editor. Today was  
the second time I lost a long, thoughful message (not to a woman, though  
:) ) because the session timed out, and the Web mail program doesn't warn  
you. Unless I'm confusen, their Web mail server doesn't know that you're  
busy within your browser in a multiline form.

Best of luck! No fun changing ISPs, imho.

-- 
Nicholas  B o d l e y
Waltham, Mass.
Death by natural causes in Iraq is considered a blessing.