when last we saw our hero (Tuesday, Sep 23, 2003), Chuck Cole was madly tapping out: > Good info. Anybody know what it may take to get Frontier (much of > Dakota County) to allow alternate DSL vendors on their lines like > Qwest does? All they will offer now is bundled DSL and ISP (plus > phone promos) and it's expensive. The Sprint PCS (cell) 3G option > is as fast outgoing (about 140kb/sec) and MUCH cheaper and more > portable than any WiFi. frontier does allow 3rd party isps to access their dsl infrastructure. i know visi[1] provides service within the frontier footprint. i believe you will have to frontier pay for the dsl line and visi for the ip service on top of it. { snipped - misc previous correspondence } references ---------- [1] http://www.visi.com -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list