Re: Choice of ISP

["Robert Krawitz-2" <user=69@nabble.blu.org>]

    Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:53:41 -0400 
   From: David Kramer <[hidden email]> 

   Robert Krawitz wrote: 
   >    From: Michael Goodman <[hidden email]> 
   >    Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:39:16 -0400 
   > 
   >    I echo the prior recommendations of SpeakEasy and avoiding Comcast. 
   ~~ snip ~~ 
   > These aren't enough to get me to switch to ComRizon, but things don't 
   > seem to be quite what they used to be.  Maybe the amount of data I'm 
   > kicking around has also increased. 

   I have SpeakEasy now, and love them, but my physical phone line has 
   become a big problem.  A few times a year we get heavy static, 
   sometimes so bad we don't get a dialtone.  Usually weather-based. 
   Verizon claims it's in the house, I test at where it comes in to 
   the house to prove it's not, I try to convince them to get their 
   butts out here to fix it, and they do something that makes it go 
   away for a while.  But this time I've been without a home phone for 
   close to two weeks, and we're done with it.  It's too bad I need to 
   ditch SpeakEasy in the process, but the casualties of war, and all. 

The only phone line outage we've had in recent years was definitely 
inside the house (i. e. the network interface in the garage was 
fine).  Interestingly enough, the Speakeasy DSL (which is shared) 
continued to work sporadically even after the phone line was dead, so 
it took us a while to realize what was going on (we were simply happy 
not to be receiving calls!).  Initially it failed shorted, and 
eventually it failed open. 

As best as I can figure, a mouse or something inside the wall is what 
got to it.  We ran a new wire instead. 

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