[GRLUG] GR area ISPs

[Bob Kline]

Not bad.  What is your nominal speed?

i.e., what are you paying for?

U-verse is not available everywhere.
Not in my area, and I'm in GR.

    -- Bob


On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Joseph Workman <joseph.workman at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have sustained download speed of around 1024kB's
> and the speakeasy test put me at:
> Download Speed: *11459* kbps (1432.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
> Upload Speed: *1468* kbps (183.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What are GREAT speeds?
>>
>> Do you ever use http://www.speedtest.net/ or
>> http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ ?
>>
>> If so, try it early in the morning - like 4:30AM.
>> Preferably on a Sunday. So you can get some
>> idea of what the physical speed is.
>>
>>    -- Bob
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Joseph Workman <joseph.workman at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I really like ATT UVserve for res services. I get GREAT speeds and alot
>>> better service than I got from comcast.
>>>
>>> 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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>>> Workman Technology Services
>>> 616.827.7570
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