[TriLUG] geek-friendly ISP's

[Chad Thomsen]

Are you serious about the "guaranteed minimal bandwidth"?  Kind of like a
CIR for frame relay?  Reason I ask is I was contemplating switching our
remote offices for the network I run to Broadband/dsl solution but I could
not get timewaner or bellsouth to give me a CIR.  Since we run VoIP that is
critical.

Chad

On 28 Jan 2006 12:42:53 -0500, Jon Carnes <jonc at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
> TriLUG mailing list        : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
> TriLUG Organizational FAQ  : http://trilug.org/faq/
> TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
>