comcast and kbyu
Henry Paul
henry at paulfam.com
Wed Oct 19 09:27:17 MDT 2011
On 10/19/2011 09:21 AM, Eric Olsen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Merrill Oveson<moveson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For internet, as has been detailed in a previous email thread (
> http://plug.org/pipermail/plug/2011-August/026384.html) I highly recommend
> XMission. I'm almost positive they won't be the cheapest you'll find, but
> their quality and service far exceeds the cost in my opinion. They are also
> very Linux friendly, even being a mirror for a few major distros, which
> makes updating nice and fast (you don't have to be a subscriber to get
> access to their mirror, btw). If you live in an area where Utopia will drop
> a fiber line to your house, you can't beat it.
>
I'll second the plug (pun intended) for Xmission. I use them on UTOPIA.
In addition to providing awesome mirrors for downloading, if you upload
/ download to their servers, the transfers don't count against your
monthly usage if you're a customer. So now my OS updates and patches
don't subtract my monthly data transfer. How cool is that?
--Henry
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