How do sshd and ftp fit in to the picture? These are the "servers" I'm
mostly likely to run and use often, personally. Also, do they have crazy
rules limiting the number of computers on a connection, unstated total
data transfer caps, etc? I've just heard a lot of horror stories about
Comcast and Verizon on things like that over the years.
As far as Speakeasy, I guess the sort answer was always that I stuck with
Speakeasy because it was what an ISP should be, it was a good connection
and it was mine to do with as I saw fit. It is more expensive, but you
also have to be careful to compare apples to apples. Once you say, add
the cost of that webhosting server, the difference is considerably less.
But I agree, in many cases it will not be the absolute cheapest
alternative, and it depends on what you want. The only other point to
mention is Speakeasy's Netshare program, where you have the option of
sharing your wifi with your neighbors and Speakeasy split the bill between
you. That's one option to bring down the price.
Later,
Nick
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Joe Murphy wrote:
I was a SpeakEasy customer for years and can concur with what Nick has
stated. It is considerably more expensive than the other alternatives out
there, but if you want to run services out of your house and be above board
about it, it is probably the way to go.
If you just want to host a webpage and have your own mail domain though, a
more cost effective method would be to get a lower cost solution (FiOS is
probably best if you can get it) and get a relatively cheap hosting solution
on the web. Places like Dreamhost (http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html)
where you can get a fairly full setup for around $10 per month.
Joe
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Cummings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] High-speed internet
Ordinarily I would strongly recommend Speakeasy DSL (if that will provide
enough bandwidth). It's not quite as cheap as Verizon, but generally you
get a whole lot more (more reliability, MUCH better tech support, MUCH
better terms of service). However, Speakeasy was just purchased by Best
Buy, so I can't tell you whether their awesome service will continue or
not. It might be worth a look, in any case.
One thing to be careful about generally is terms of service (TOS) vs. what
you're interested in doing. If you want to run any sort of server, for
example, that's a violation of the TOS for almost any residential connect,
except for a few cool providers like Speakeasy.
Nick
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Jin-Ho Yoon wrote:
Hi, Guys:
I've been using Comcast for long time. It is ok, but during spring and
summer, there are many outage of service due to weather(?, my only guess).
So, i am thinking to switch to Verizon or other provider.
Can you give me some advice (i am in silver spring area)?
Thanks,
Jinho
