New Faster Speakeasy Internet Connection
posted in Technology |I’ve been a Speakeasy customer for almost 10 years now pretty much since I moved into my house. Now people argue about DSL vs. Cable and they have lots of good arguments one way or another. I’ll grant that an Internet connection from the cable company would probably be much cheaper for comparable speeds. But I really hate the cable companies and the way they treat their customers and exert control. Plus, Speakeasy makes a bunch of the difference by being a relatively clueful Internet provider. They make it easy to get static IP addresses, and I’ve always had great service experiences with them. I’ve had a handful of outages in 10 years and only once or twice were the outages more than brief. Of course they are dependent on the people providing the actual connections (Covad, etc) and sometimes you get some finger pointing, but the general notion that they can interact with technical customers on a reasonable basis is worth the extra cost to me.
I’d been thinking about looking into faster connection speeds for a bit and today I read that they have a new service called ADSL2, offered at 8, 10 and 15Mbps download (all the uploads are 1.0Mbps). I’m apparently far enough from the station that I only get 8Mbps, but that should be fine. Its not cheap, but comes with 8 static IP addresses (I’d been paying extra for those) and since I’m working at my home office a lot the extra performance is fairly easy to justify.
My connection should be installed in about 2 weeks- I’ll let you know how it works.