I was a SpeakEasy customer for years and can concur with what Nick has
stated. It is considerably more expensive than the other alternatives out
there, but if you want to run services out of your house and be above board
about it, it is probably the way to go.
If you just want to host a webpage and have your own mail domain though, a
more cost effective method would be to get a lower cost solution (FiOS is
probably best if you can get it) and get a relatively cheap hosting solution
on the web. Places like Dreamhost (http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html)
where you can get a fairly full setup for around $10 per month.
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Cummings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] High-speed internet
Ordinarily I would strongly recommend Speakeasy DSL (if that will provide
enough bandwidth). It's not quite as cheap as Verizon, but generally you
get a whole lot more (more reliability, MUCH better tech support, MUCH
better terms of service). However, Speakeasy was just purchased by Best
Buy, so I can't tell you whether their awesome service will continue or
not. It might be worth a look, in any case.
One thing to be careful about generally is terms of service (TOS) vs. what
you're interested in doing. If you want to run any sort of server, for
example, that's a violation of the TOS for almost any residential connect,
except for a few cool providers like Speakeasy.
Nick
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Jin-Ho Yoon wrote:
Hi, Guys:
I've been using Comcast for long time. It is ok, but during spring and
summer, there are many outage of service due to weather(?, my only
guess).
So, i am thinking to switch to Verizon or other provider.
Can you give me some advice (i am in silver spring area)?
Thanks,
Jinho
