[GRLUG] ISP shopping

[Matthew Seeley]

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.

For some reason, they hide services and pricing offline -- so you'll have to
call or 'live chat' with them to get a quote.

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").


(I'm switching to them sometime in September, and can let you know how it
goes)


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Matthew Seeley
Threadlight Systems
PO Box 612, Jenison MI 49429
T: (616) 328-5649


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Philip J. Robar <philip.robar at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Jun 22, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> >>
> >> > I'm shopping for an ISP for home. Not going to touch Comcast or
> >> > U-verse for this. U-verse because I don't like their router, and
> >> > Comcast because the local loop's bandwidth will be shared with too
> >> > many other local customers.
> >>
> >> I had Comcast in an pretty dense apartment location in the heart of the
> SF
> >> Bay Area, California for years and never had a problem with shared
> bandwidth
> >> or their service. Currently I'm using Charter here in St. Louis and I've
> >> never noticed a slow down.
> >>
> >> Phil
> >>
> >>
> > I was told by a Comcast rep that one of the things
> > get with a business class service is "preferential
> > treatment" with bandwidth.  Somehow they
> > allow the business traffic through preferentially
> > if there is congestion.
>
> That's QoS with preferential routing. A reasonable option, but I've
> got worries about Comcast doing DPI traffic shaping even on their
> commercial customers, especially considering I'm going to be pushing
> VOIP.
>
> Also, when I last had Comcast, they had regular-as-clockwork service
> outages at about 2:30AM every Wednesday night, at about the same time
> as all their video channels gave the "this is a test of the emergency
> broadcast system" message. I wouldn't use them for anything that
> needed to run reliably overnight.
>
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