Sadly, I just got off the phone with them...

They don't offer adsl where at the house I am buying, but they did try to
sell me a t1 line... stating that some people use it for gaming...

so my high opinions of them dropped a bit.

On 10/22/07, Tim Fournet <tfournet at tfour.net> wrote:
>
> Speakeasy is available in the New Orleans area in Louisiana, but that's
> about it. I was actually in VoIP training with Speakeasy in Dallas last
> week when that story broke, and the Speakeasy managers there were
> laughing about what Comcast is doing. Speakeasy does not block, filter,
> or throttle any incoming our outgoing ports on their network. The one
> thing that they do is to give voice packets priority on their MPLS
> network, but they have so much bandwidth in their backbone that nobody
> would even notice. Every account also comes with static IPs, and even
> shell accounts.
>
> If you have them as a choice, it's definitely worth the extra dollars.
> Their support is excellent, and they support "alternative" operating
> sytems.
>
> mat branyon wrote:
> > I just moved to Denver a couple of months ago.  Comcast is our ISP up
> > here, and I can verify that our service is horrible (roommate
> > downloads a lot through bittorrent).
> >
> > I'll be moving into a new house in the next couple weeks, and there
> > will be no Comcast.  There will be no Qwest either.  There will be
> > DirectTV, and for internet, Speakeasy (they even have an option where
> > you don't have to have a phone line).  Speakeasy runs about the price
> > of business DSL, but in their TOS they specify that nothing will be
> > blocked.  You are guaranteed nothing but the bandwidth you purchase.
> > They also give static IP addresses.
> >
> >
> > Last I checked, Speakeasy wasn't available in Louisiana (that was a
> > few years ago though)
> >
> > --mat
> >
> > On 10/19/07, *B. Estrade* < estrabd at gmail.com
> > <mailto:estrabd at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Some of you might get excited about this:
> >
> >     http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21376597/
> >
> >     Brett
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