[GRLUG] GR area ISPs

[Michael Mol]

It's worth pointing out here: if you have an office in a larger
building with other tenants, you can probably set yourself up as an
ISP, splitting the cost of that T3.

I won't touch U-Verse yet, as they use 802.1x to verify that their
customers are using the 2-Wire modem/router they provide--and that
device is a POS by all accounts.

I don't touch Comcast, currently, as I'm in an apartment complex--the
local loop is going to be swamped.

If anyone knows how to find an accurate and complete list of ILECs
that service a particular region (or even address), that'd be a
really, *really* useful piece of information.

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure.  For $250 to $1,000 a month
> you can get a T1 line.
> But for a mere $3,000 to $12,000 a
> month you can get 30X the speed.
> A T3 line.
> Those are really neat.  Just ask Dick
> DeVos, or Bill Gates.
>    -- Bob
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Richard Maloley II
> <richard at rrcomputerconsulting.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.jasnetworks.net/v4/go.gnf?s=jasnet
>> I used to work with them, decent enough service and you can get a
>> residential T1 if you wanted... Price is kind of high though, but it is
>> completely local to the GR area.
>>
>> "I've lost a machine... Literally _lost_. It responds to ping, it works
>> completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is."
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Dan Pilcheck <pilcheck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
>>> I'm finally fed up with comcast enough to look around for alternate
>>> ISPs, but it looks to be a sparse market for wired broadband.
>>> (And not because of the latest DNS outage, their resolvers are way to
>>> slow, anyways, imo.)
>>>
>>> I'm looking at /will be testing Clears (clear.com) 4G home service,
>>> but I'm not expecting that to be up to par.
>>> Ma Bell's U-verse is about the only thing I can see that can compare,
>>> but if the price is reasonable to the speed
>>> I'd prefer to give my money to some local/smaller provider.
>>>
>>> Does the Grand Rapids metro area have any other options!?!?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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