[SLL] Nationwide Internet: melting down?

[Phil Mocek]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:03:34PM -0700, Mark Ballinger wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 05:17:59PM -0700, Tim Maher wrote:
> > Question time:
> > 
> > 1) Did any other Seattle DSL customers have an outage today (8/9)?
> >    If not, what ISP are you using?
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> 1) I didn't lose any service today.  I'm in Maple Leaf (NE Seattle)
> 
> 2) I have been very happy with inwa.net.  It's pretty bare-bones
> service, and no static IP.  Still, I have had the same IP since,
> I don't know, last December.  

I'll second that.  I have a QWest circuit, and my ISP is inwa.net
(Innovative Access Washington, a.k.a., hemp.net).  I'm on Capitol
Hill in Seattle.  No trouble yesterday.

When I signed up a couple years ago, I arranged for a static /29
for an extra $5/month.  No restrictions on use besides "keep it
legal".  They'll lease you a DSL modem/router, but I'm using my
Cisco 678 instead.  Support is reportedly sometimes hard to reach,
as they run on a skeleton crew and have had flakey VOIP service,
but I've never needed to call them more than once since my service
was established.

-- 
Phil Mocek