[SLL] Nationwide Internet: melting down?

[Tim Maher]

Yesterday's outage ended up lasting 4 hours, and this morning
there was another for 30 minutes!  So I've placed an order with
Speakeasy, and will soon be rid of Nationwide Incompetenternet
altogether! Thanks to all for the input.

-Tim
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 08:12:48AM -0700, Andrew Sweger wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Tim Maher wrote:
> 
> > 1) Did any other Seattle DSL customers have an outage today (8/9)?
> >    If not, what ISP are you using?
> 
> No outage here. Using Speakeasy SDSL via Covad dry pair.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Speakeasy.
> 
> -- 
> Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
>                                 things can go wrong at once.