Re: Local ISP recommendations?

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:58:25 -0700

You didn't say what your budget range was, but both FairPoint & Comcast offer static IP options for a slightly higher monthly fee.
You can also use the lower cost dynamic IP along with a service like DynDNS that changes your DNS host file as your IP changes. http://www.dyndns.com/ You'll probably run into issues with having the IPs flagged as 'residential' and the resulting email rejection however. That shouldn't happen with the static IP ranges though as they're targeted at business use. 


I've had Comcast service at the house for years and it's pretty stable, 
going out for a couple of hours perhaps twice a year.  One question to 
ask the neighbors who already have Comcast about is how loaded the line 
gets.  I'm out on a residential road and it's great, but friends 
downtown tell me they see a slowdown during the workday and the 
prime-time 6-9pm range.



SoverNet offers co-lo services in Burlington but they're expensive.  
Waitsfield Telecom does as well, their server room is located in 
Hinesburg. (I think)



Finally, shop for a T1, just for shits and grins.  Since a major portion 
of the T1 cost is the loop charge (the fee for the wire from the CO to 
your house, billed by length) and you're right next to the CO, it should 
be fairly cheap.  See some sites like: http://www.t1shopper.com/ or call 
Sprint directly.


    Rene



On 7/15/2010 6:05 AM, Gary Brown wrote:

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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 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]

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