[GRLUG] GR area ISPs

[Jonathan Jesse]

We live in the Alger Heights area and switched from Dish Network + AT&T DSL
to Uverse and doubled the amount of channels we had + 4x the internet speed.
 Works great for what we use the internet for, web browsing, downloading
files and working from home

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>>> chance but rather a by-product of our own will?
>>>>> That from here on out, nature stops deciding who survives and who
>>>>> doesn't, but our own decisions?
>>>>>
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>>>> Workman Technology Services
>>>> 616.827.7570
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