[UCLA-LUG] reliable broadband in Westwood/UCLA area?

[Charles Wyble]

Ben Clifford wrote:
>   
>> I used to use Verizon from 2001 up until about 15mo ago, when I moved out 
>> of their service area.
>>
>> They were OK - I'd probably use them again.
>>
>> A couple of times in 4y they went down for a weekend, I think.
>>
>> No static IP on the service I got from them (though maybe with a more 
>> expensive plan, they would), and every month or so they'd force me to get 
>> a new IP address rather than letting me have the same dynamically-assigned 
>> one for 4y.
>>     
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> oh also the email address they gave me for free was completely lame, and 
> they wouldn't let me use their outbound SMTP server for any other address. 
> That wasn't an issue for me as I do my own mail handling.
>
>   
Huh? Do you mean they wouldn't let you send e-mail out of there network? 
Or wouldn't let you use there SMTP server to process e-mail for other 
domains?
If your saying they wouldn't let you send e-mail to other domains 
outside Verizon thats nonsense. I presume you mean it wouldn't let you 
use it as an SMTP server
for your domains. This isn't true. You simply have to authenticate first 
via POP before SMTP. Yes I know thats a hack. I do it with fetchmail 
once a minute anyway,
and it works fine.