[TriLUG] geek-friendly ISP's

[Jon Carnes]

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 11:16, David W. Aquilina wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:25:35AM -0500, Alan Porter wrote:
> > > Speakeasy ++
> > 
> > I assume that they resell other service, like Intrex
> > and Earthlink do.  Are they Cable or DSL, or both?
> > 
> > I did a quick search on their web page, and all they
> > offered in the Cary/Apex BellSouth area was a T1.
>  
> They resell Covad, which uses BellSouth's lines. 
> 
> (the one time I had line trouble it was a Covad truck that came out to check things out. It's worth noting that I had called late the night before, the truck was there early the next morning)
> 
It's also worth noting that even though the Line comes from Bell the DSL
is really on Speakeasy's network and *not* Bell's. This makes a
tremendous difference in your internet connectivity. 

Some of our VoIP clients can't use either Bell or TimeWarner in their
locations - due to those ISPs over-extending the local service (or
running their service on older sub-standard cabling...). We've never had
that problem with Speakeasy.

Speakeasy also offers guaranteed minimal bandwidth - which you can't get
from either Bell or TimeWarner. It costs more for the reserved bandwidth
but it works great for VoIP service - and costs a lot less than a T1.

Jon Carnes
FeatureTel