[SLL] Nationwide Internet: melting down?

[Glenn Stone]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 05:17:59PM -0700, Tim Maher wrote:
>1) Did any other Seattle DSL customers have an outage today (8/9)?
>   If not, what ISP are you using?

Mine did not.  I'm on plain old-fashioned Qwest.  

>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.

At this point, if you're in an area where Speakeasy thinks they have
service, and you're not too much in a hurry for service, I'd go with
Speakeasy.  (Qwest's residential service will let you run ssh and smtp but
*not* www or anything like that.)  *So far*, their buyout by Best Buy
doesn't seem to have hurt their customer service.  Caveat emptor.  

Others I've done business with are 2alpha (for DSL, in both Qwest and
Verizon-land, very nice) and Eskimo (I've only done dialup with them, but I
*think* Robert is doing DSL nowadays?)... I'm sure the gang has others they
can recommend. 

-- Glenn