John, I live in Milton also and prior to giving in to Comcast, I did some investigation on what ISP options there are in Milton. Short answer, very little. The options I came up with were:
1) Comcast 2) Verizon DSL - was verizon at the time, but I was too far from the CO. 3) Wireless connection. I can't remember the wireless provider who covers the area, but I think one or two folks on here could provide that. Looking at you Dave. 4) Earthlink Business DSL. you'll pay more than Comcast for it, but Earthlink of all places, somehow had a reseller option through Verizon's lines at the time (few years ago), which would allow them to provide rather impressive DSL service. Not as good as Comcast, but MUCH better than standard DSL. I don't know if you've considered colocating your server here instead of putting them at your residence? there are some good options if you're interested. Just a thought. Good luck! Mike Raley --- On Wed, 7/14/10, John Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > From: John Campbell <[email protected]> > Subject: Local ISP recommendations? > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 11:35 PM > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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? > > - -- John Campbell > [email protected] > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFMPoHrPu/PJk2ePZ0RAu9qAJ9QhJ+KkBSXXW+JPDTYAeAnpWh2IQCgh2m7 > 0xE0j7kEfIt7QVwrHOrqFIg= > =0YDM > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
