[Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)

[Alan Maupin]

Based on price vs performance which vendor would you recommend.
Marshallnet seems to have the best prices going for a 3-5MB down and 1MB
up for $25 a month, but I know nothing about the reliability of the
service.  Are you familiar with this company?

On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 23:46 -0500, John.Lengeling at radisys.com wrote:
> 
> > If anyone has a personal suggestion on what they consider the
> superior
> > Internet service for this area is I would appreciate the tip.
> 
> I have had Qwest DSL with Freeze Notis for 3-4 years.  I generally
> have 1-2 small outages per year which may last from 30min-1.5hrs. 
> So I have seen about 99.99% uptime.  They also provide static IP
> addresses for hosting servers.  It also seems that people with the
> dialup DSL service have more problems than people with full time DSL
> connections. 
> 
> I generally recommend the following high speed options to people in
> order of descending preference. I hate to recommend Satellite, but if
> that is your only choice it is better than dialup. 
> 
> 1 - DSL 
> 2 - Cable 
> 3 - Prairie Inet 
> 4 - Satellite
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