Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Boston area: which ISP would you recommend

2001-01-28 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:26:02PM -0500, Vinod Kurup wrote: :Well, just to add one (kinda) dissenting opinion... I use RCN and they're OK. :Not great, but usable. Their connection drops have gone from 2-3/day :to about 1-2/week and my IP address hasn't changed in about 3 months. Well that's two

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Boston area: which ISP would you recommend

2001-01-27 Thread Vinod Kurup
> MediaOne is known to have some periodic routing problems, but based on > what I've heard I'd take them over Verizon. I've heard a lot of > people with similar problems with RCN to what Noah describes, I'd > avoid them like the plague. > Well, just to add one (kinda) dissenting opinion... I use

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Boston area: which ISP would you recommend

2001-01-27 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:54:16PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: :I have heard good things about shore.net as well. In fact I was once :offerred a sysadmin job by them, and toured their facility. They're a :very clueful group. I know some excellent folks who've worked for shore.net and they s

[OFFTOPIC] Re: Boston area: which ISP would you recommend

2001-01-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 02:07:37PM -0800, Christophe Broult wrote: > I have just relocated from Normandy, France to Boston, > MA. I am wondering if any of you in the Boston area > would have any suggestion about an ISP whether it is > via regular modem, cable or DSL. I use a DSL line from Speakeas