[Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)

[Dave Weis]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Alan Maupin wrote:
> 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?

That is what we charge for ours also. Are you in range for the faster 
speeds?

> 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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