On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <[email protected]>wrote:
> What is the collective wisdom on ISPs in Eugene? I'm moving to a house > near Chambers and 18th. I need a decent internet connection. I use VoIP > extensively and will likely get a telecommute job. What are my options? > I second Larry's statements. Qwest and Comcast are essentially the only games in town, Unless you count Clearwire or a cellular-based option, which I wouldn't if you want to have good VoIP performance. I have used Qwest personally for 8+ years and have been happy with them. I'm on their 7Mb plan. Lately they've had some performance problems, but they have been easy to resolve by calling support and after a short rain-dance having them switch my line "to a different circuit". I assume that customer-supportese for "The upstream connection you were on was overloaded, so we've routed you to a different one.". The compnay I work for uses Comcast at the office, we're on the 20Mb business package. It's pretty costly for personal use (~160 / mo) but it has been reliable and performs very well. If I didn't have such philosophical problems with Comcast (I know Qwest has issues too, but their the lesser of two evils if you ask me) I'd probably switch to a similar plan at home. The latency advantage that cable has over DSL is hard to ignore. QH
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