[mdlug] Naked/"dry loop" DSL and Linux-friendly ISPs

[Rick Renshaw]

--- Daniel Hedlund <daniel at digitree.org> wrote:

> Has anyone had any positive experiences getting "dry loop" DSL service 
> (without phone) through AT&T(SBC) owned copper?  I've read that due to 
> the merger a while back, having a monopoly required them to make such a 
> service available for at least two years.
> 
> If so, what I'd like to know is if anyone has had any positive 
> experiences with any ISPs in particular that offer static IP addresses 
> and are reasonably friendly to non-commercial Linux-based servers, 
> including hosting my own email and DNS services.

I didn't start out with "dry loop", I had AT&T phone and ordered DSL from Speakeasy
(www.speakeasy.net).  Once the DSL line was in, I changed over to Speakeasy's VoIP service and had
the AT&T line shut down, so I'm now a "dry loop" as you call it.

Speakeasy is the most Linux friendly ISP I've ever dealt with.  The encourage you to run you own
servers, I have a static IP and they even provide secondary DNS servers as part of my static IP service.

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