On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Brian Chabot wrote: > > Take a look at www.speakeasy.net > > Do they own their own equipment and network, or are they reselling Covad > like the rest of the world is (or seems to)?
They are a Covad reseller. They also used to resell Northpoint. > What is their financial outlook? Not bad. When DSL companies started going under left and right, they has a really funny graphic on their website that read: "Speakeasy - We pay our Covad Bills"... > Given the number of DSL providers that have gone out of business in the > past year (i.e., almost all of them), I generally regard DSL *very* warily. Same here. Speakeasy had a bit of a scare when Covad hick-up'd a few months ago. What enamoured me to them (besides all the rave reviews from fellow geeks) was that they don't skimp on the information they give you. During the install process, you have full access to the communication logs between Speakeasy and their vendors (ATT/Bell Atlantic/Covad, etc) so you see exactly what is going on. They also give you a dialup account and a shell account in case you need to use it before install or during outages. Their techs don't talk down to the customers nearly as badly as other providers do, and most of their techs don't automatically assume you're an idiot. I like them. That said, I had a REALLY bad problem with packet loss last night and this morning... Soooo.... YMMV. Brian --------------------------------------------------------------- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spam me and DIE! | | http://www.datasquire.net | | Co-Founder & Co-Owner of | | Data Squire Internet Services | --------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
