Sigh, I chose the greater of two evils, but I can say that the speedboost thing works wonders, I'm not even sure if it is just on singular download streams, but wow, it might be time to tune those TCP settings more aggressively, since the medium-sized ISO's like bootable biz cards really lose out, relative to full-size distro's, by this scheme IMO :) That is to say, I have no problems with it. On a UPS, it has stayed online through a number of local power issues and handles my dedicated PAP2 phone adapter quite well (via viatalk fwiw). Make sure you get your last-mile [sic] of cable upgraded if you're in an older place; you can explain that you're likely to upgrade to the business-grade service level and they probably won't complain. Same things goes for DSL, of course, you need decent wires in any case. I've seen wiring issues dictate the choices in some situations: nobody likes crawling around in insulation, that I know of.
Ben On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Quentin Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > >
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