Linux-Friendly ISP?

[Michael Hipp]

I've used Century Link for some of my clients here in rural and small 
town Arkansas. I think highly of them. Their support seems competent. In 
a previous $JOB I knew some of their top execs and they are one of the 
few telco companies that seem to *value* rural customers.

If I could get their 3Mbps DSL here I'd run to sign up.

They don't need to "support" Linux. They either just need to give you a 
good modem-router or else you buy your own and put it on your side  of 
their modem. OS is irrelevant. There should be nothing to install on 
your boxes.

I wouldn't hesitate.

Michael Hipp
Outer Boonies, Arkansas


On 2/11/2016 11:10 AM, Leon Goldstein via Linux-users wrote:
> I've mentioned earlier that I'm still stuck in the breakdown lane of the
> information super highway with dialup.
> This may end now.  Apparently I can now get a rather slow -  3 mbs -
> ADSL connection with my telco (Century Link.).
>
> For years I've been told that there was no DSL in my area and only after
> upgrading of the telephone lines would it be offered. However, evidently
> there are now fiber optic cables running to the nodes, and this now
> allows sufficient signal strength and/or purity for DSL.
>
> First question: does this sound real?
>
> Second question: anybody have experience with Century Link and their
> technical support?
>
> I have never used the only other broadband available to me - Time-Warner
> cable "Road Runner"  - for several reasons.  Their cable TV service
> stinks; I disconnected from their cable TV last year and put up an
> antenna.  Whenever I've talked to TW about internet, I've asked if they
> support Linux.  Usually I've had to be shunted to a technically savant
> operator, and get the same reply;  only Windows and Mac OSX are
> "supported."  So if I have a problem, the first question is "what
> operating system do you have" and a reply of "Linux" will be answered by
> TW hanging up on me.
>