Re: Chicagoland ISP suggestions?

I second Speakeasy as a recommendation. I've only heard good things about
them, Covad is a pretty stable last mile provider and Speakeasy is very
server/geek friendly.

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Vitaly McLain <[email protected]>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith T. Garner" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [LUNI-D] Chicagoland ISP suggestions?


| On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 06:04:54, Mike Cathey said:
| > On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 17:04, Vitaly McLain wrote:
| > > I've dealt with numerous DSL companies and if you want to go that
| > > direction, stay away from anyone that deals with
| > > Ameritech. Hosting.com/InterAccess, for example, is an example of
| > > ISP that gives you good speed/reliability simply because they don't
| > > have to deal with Ameritech too much. (Note: InterAccess will give
| > > you an IP that points towards their firewall unless you pay more
| > > for their static IP.)
| >
| > Thanks for the input on Ameritech.  I checked out dslreports.com, but
| > almost all of the ISPs had at least some negative feedback and I really
| > don't want to give Earthlink any of my money.
| >
| > My employer will be subsidizing my net connection, so I'll probably go
| > for a static.  It would definitely make DNS less of a hassle.
|
| I'm using Speakeasy as my ISP (with Covad as the DSL backhaul guys)
| and I've been extremely happy for going on three years.  They are
| server and linux friendly and have been very responsive when I've had
| to call tech support.  My wife and I are in the process of moving to a
| new house, and I'll reup with speakeasy once we're in the new place.
| I strongly recommend them.
|
| It actually feels funny calling speakeasy my ISP as I really don't
| depend on them for anything except the connection and reverse DNS.
| Horray for your own mail/dns/web/etc servers.
|
| Anyway, as far as negative reports go, you can't please all of the
| people all of the time so every ISP will have "at least some negative
| feedback" on a site like dslreports.
|
| Keith
|
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|    Keith T. Garner
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so
|  certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.  --Bertrand
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