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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20071022/c7c4da5c/attachment.html
