<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I am not going to recommend specific
vendors. They are several vendors available to choose from. Both
Freeze Notis and Marshallnet owners/managers are CIALUG list members. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">My recommendation was more along the
lines of technology recommendations. I also forgot to mention Verizon's
Wireless Internet as an option but I don't know if it is available in Des
Moines at this time.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">johnl</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>cialug-bounces@cialug.org wrote on 04/13/2006 07:26:28
AM:<br>
<br>
> Based on price vs performance which vendor would you recommend.<br>
> Marshallnet seems to have the best prices going for a 3-5MB down and
1MB<br>
> up for $25 a month, but I know nothing about the reliability of the<br>
> service. Are you familiar with this company?<br>
> <br>
> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 23:46 -0500, John.Lengeling@radisys.com wrote:<br>
> > <br>
> > > If anyone has a personal suggestion on what they consider
the<br>
> > superior<br>
> > > Internet service for this area is I would appreciate the
tip.<br>
> > <br>
> > I have had Qwest DSL with Freeze Notis for 3-4 years. I
generally<br>
> > have 1-2 small outages per year which may last from 30min-1.5hrs.
<br>
> > So I have seen about 99.99% uptime. They also provide static
IP<br>
> > addresses for hosting servers. It also seems that people
with the<br>
> > dialup DSL service have more problems than people with full time
DSL<br>
> > connections. <br>
> > <br>
> > I generally recommend the following high speed options to people
in<br>
> > order of descending preference. I hate to recommend Satellite,
but if<br>
> > that is your only choice it is better than dialup. <br>
> > <br>
> > 1 - DSL <br>
> > 2 - Cable <br>
> > 3 - Prairie Inet <br>
> > 4 - Satellite<br>
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