[SLL] Nationwide Internet: melting down?

[Clifford Snow]

On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 17:17 -0700, Tim Maher wrote:
> Okay, my "Nationwide Internet" DSL service went out again today (at
> 4pm), and after listening to the "hold music" for an hour, I was given
> the usual explanation -- everybody in "my area" is affected, and
> they're working with Qwest to determine what's wrong.
> 
> I'm totally fed up with this crappy reliability, and ready to switch
> to a more reliable DSL IP -- or maybe even to cable. When I posted a
> similar message back in July, Ralph Sims reported that he uses Qwest
> DSL, and had never had an outage. But IIRC he's in Shelton, so his
> experience may not be relevant to what I'm seeing in Seattle (maybe
> they ran a dedicated fiber optic cable right to his house? 8-} )
> 
> Question time:
> 
> 1) Did any other Seattle DSL customers have an outage today (8/9)?
>    If not, what ISP are you using?
I did not experience any outages today.  I live in the Wallingford area.
My ISP is ADOS.net out of OR.  They use Drizzle for the local
connectivity between Qwest and ADOS.  
> 
> 2) What more reliable ISP would you recommend? (I'm easily satisfied --
>    all I need is one (non-RBHL) static IP address, and permission to run
>    some standard servers.
I've been happy with ADOS, plus good pricing for a static IP.  I work
with Drizzle for a client.  They provide both hosting and ISP services.
I would recommend them as well.

Clifford Snow