[Novalug] Patriot.Net - still a good ISP?

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Sun Jan 7 21:53:13 EST 2007


>
>
> I have had several ISPs -- my current one, Speakeasy, is easily the best
> of the lot.  The price is $45-50/month (other providers are cheaper) for
> "ADSL" 1.5Mbps down and 364Kps up;  they are rarely down; they are
> familiar with Linux; their download rate is pretty much solid at 1.25Mbps
> (I don't particularly care about the upload rate.).

Dynamic or static ip addressing?

Jay

>
> I am a customer;  otherwise I have absolutely no relationship with the
> company or any of its employees.
>
> Sam
>
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Alan McConnell wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:43:59PM -0500, Julia Christianson wrote:
>> > Patriotnet was bought by IceWeb ... well, can't really remember, but six
>> > to eight months ago, and after a time service seemed to be going
>> > downhill.  In November it reached serious proportions ... they couldn't
>> > keep the mailserver up, for one thing, and I understand dialup was out a
>> > lot too, and I was seriously shopping for another provider but, as you
>> > discovered, there aren't a lot left.
>> >
>> > On December 6th we got a message that it had been taken over by a
>> > company called Leros (http://www.leros.net/), which at least seems to be
>> > linux-oriented and not entirely clueless.  Since then, I haven't
>> > experienced any problems with my DSL account, although I understand
>> > dialup is still a bit rough.  At any rate, things appear stable enough
>> > that I'm no longer shopping for a replacement.
>> 	There are still unfortunately quite a few problems.  I have
>> 	been running two E-lists on patriot.net, one using Ecartis(this was
>> 	an experiment, promising SW, but the developers gave up) and
>> 	the newest one using mailman, which is supposed to be functional,
>> 	stable, and actively developed and maintained.
>>
>> 	The guy who first installed mailman, under the IceWeb regime, has
>> 	now left.  The Leros guy who took over has made some improvements,
>> 	but has still left in place an old and buggy mailman.  Almost the
>> 	worst part is: there is no communication.  One doesn't know if
>> 	one's complaint has been received, whether any action is planned,
>> 	etc.
>>
>> I've been with PatriotNet for over ten years.  It was very good until the
>> disastrous takeover by IceWeb, as described by Julia above;  I am not yet
>> convinced that Leros, whoever they are, take support at patriot.net
>> seriously.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> --
>> Alan McConnell :  http://patriot.net/users/alan
>>     "He lies.  He spies.  He wants us to ignore
>>     His war . . ."   Impeach him!
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