Hi John,
I'm not sure if they serve your area, but I've been with Green Mountain
Access (Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom) www.wcvt.com for over 10
years with a static IP and I've never had any of the issues you describe. On
the other hand, I've never utilized the level of service you are looking
for. For our needs (home server, etc...), they've been great.
Gary
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From: "John Campbell" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 23:35
Subject: Local ISP recommendations?
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Intrex, the local ISP in North Carolina that I've had my servers on
since 1997, is pulling out of the area, pushed out by AT&T/BellSouth. I'm
losing my servers' pipe at the end of the month. This eliminates the only
advantage of leaving my servers down in NC that's outweighed the
disadvantages of having them physically out of reach (namely, that Intrex
was charging me much less for vastly more and better service than the
major
ISP alternatives), so I'm looking at bringing my servers up here rather
than
rewarding BellSouth for finally succeeding in driving Intrex out by
switching over to them.
But for that, I need an ISP here, and I'm not sure what the options
are. I won't do business with Comcast, and they don't appear to offer any
plan that meets my basic requirements in any case (though it's difficult
to
tell, because the big ISPs won't put prices and details for high-end plans
on their Web pages... I figure they want to force everyone to call and
negotiate their screwing individually, for maximum possible screwage).
FairPoint is my current ISP, but while I haven't had any trouble
with them, the basic residential DSL I've got isn't going to cut it for
hosting servers, and their rep is such that I'm not sure if I should trust
them with my email and Web servers.
I don't know what else there is. I think I'm just far enough outside
Burlington (Milton village - literally next door to the CO here) that I
don't have any of the nice options that Burlington residents get. I don't
think Sovernet offers service here - though I should get in touch with
them
and find out for sure. I'm pretty sure VTel doesn't get this far north.
And
I'm not sure who else is out there.
I need broadband (and not all that much bandwidth, really - my
1M/384k FairPoint DSL is fine - but modem speeds just don't cut it
anymore),
routable static IPs (at least a three-bit subnet), and *no* usage caps,
port
blocking, listing as "residential" to cause other servers to bounce email
from it, throttling connections to competitors' networks, or any of the
other tricks that ISPs use to keep people from using their Internet
connections.
I don't give a damn about Web space or email addresses or virusware
or any of that crap. I just want a pipe and the ability to hook Linux
servers to it without the ISP interfering with my usage. Given that, I can
handle everything else myself.
Anyone got any suggestions or recommendations, or should I just call
up FairPoint and see how much they want to take me for?
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John Campbell
[email protected]
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