What's "dry dsl?" <div><br></div><div>What is the upstream speed?</div><div><br></div><div>Is there some kind of guaranteed</div><div>speed implied? i.e., is this like </div><div>business service?</div><div>
<br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Matthew Seeley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthew@threadlight.com">matthew@threadlight.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I have never actually had service with them yet, but if your looking for something like Speakeasy, Iserv.net is local to Grand Rapids, and they seem legit.<div>
<br></div><div><div>For some reason, they hide services and pricing offline -- so you'll have to call or 'live chat' with them to get a quote.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>But they quoted me $50/month for 5mb down for "dry dsl" which seems reasonable. It's $20ish dollars more per month than the same speeds from AT&T U-Verse in my area, and you have to agree to a contract, but Iserv gives you get a real modem (for "free"), and a static IP address (also for "free").</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>(I'm switching to them sometime in September, and can let you know how it goes)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>--<br>Matthew Seeley<br>Threadlight Systems<br>PO Box 612, Jenison MI 49429<br>
T: <a href="tel:%28616%29%20328-5649" value="+16163285649" target="_blank">(616) 328-5649</a><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Philip J. Robar <<a href="mailto:philip.robar@gmail.com" target="_blank">philip.robar@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Jun 22, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Michael Mol wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> > I'm shopping for an ISP for home. Not going to touch Comcast or<br>
>> > U-verse for this. U-verse because I don't like their router, and<br>
>> > Comcast because the local loop's bandwidth will be shared with too<br>
>> > many other local customers.<br>
>><br>
>> I had Comcast in an pretty dense apartment location in the heart of the SF<br>
>> Bay Area, California for years and never had a problem with shared bandwidth<br>
>> or their service. Currently I'm using Charter here in St. Louis and I've<br>
>> never noticed a slow down.<br>
>><br>
>> Phil<br>
>><br>
>><br>
> I was told by a Comcast rep that one of the things<br>
> get with a business class service is "preferential<br>
> treatment" with bandwidth. Somehow they<br>
> allow the business traffic through preferentially<br>
> if there is congestion.<br>
<br>
</div>That's QoS with preferential routing. A reasonable option, but I've<br>
got worries about Comcast doing DPI traffic shaping even on their<br>
commercial customers, especially considering I'm going to be pushing<br>
VOIP.<br>
<br>
Also, when I last had Comcast, they had regular-as-clockwork service<br>
outages at about 2:30AM every Wednesday night, at about the same time<br>
as all their video channels gave the "this is a test of the emergency<br>
broadcast system" message. I wouldn't use them for anything that<br>
needed to run reliably overnight.<br>
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