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| Way back in 1990something I got my first internet connection. A dialup account to my favorite BBS at the time, who was reselling Network Intensive bandwidth. A year or two later I switched to a cablemodem from Cox communications. It was a whole lot faster, but a lot less reliable. (And if you remember the reliability of dialup connections, that's saying a lot!) Sometime around 1998, when I was working for Network Intensive (now Verio), I got a T1 connection to my apartment, and life was good. It wasn't quite as fast as the cablemodem, but much more reliable, and faster upstream by far. I kept the T1 as long as I could, but after I left NI it got too expensive, so I switched back to a Cox Cablemodem, and have had that until yesterday. Cox's service was much better than in the old days, and with "business class" service, I could host my own web sites and email, for about $100 per month. Last night, I switched to a Speakeasy ADSL connection. I can still host services, and the cost is still about $100 per month, but I now have ten times the download speed and five times the upload speed. If Speakeasy's reliability is as good as I have read, life will be good again. T1 days good again. Speakeasy's estimate of speed was 6Mbits/sec down and 768Kbits/sec up. Actual tests put it closer to 4Mb/500Kb. So far, I'm a hapy camper. Update: 2005/01/31 Still happy. Speakeasy made the installation quite painless, the service is excellent, both in terms of speed, and in reliability, so far. Service is great, and they are quite responsive to support issues. Everything about the move was easy, including Godaddy's web interface for changing nameserver records. I highly recommend both Speakeasy and Godaddy. | ||
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Comments: Will (2005-02-01): Speakeasy is an amazing ISP... They were always very responsive. On occasion when we would have unexpected down time, I would get either an email or a phone call *gasp* from them letting me know that they were sorry, and it would be back in 15 min. Robert Rael.com (2006-10-25): Awesome! I have had speakeasy since April 2005, and absolutely love it. Same thing as you (just about), cost and speed. |
