[Cialug] Iowa Telecom and Qwest

[Neal Daringer]

are we talking residential or business? if its business then yea go for it
most likely you have a SLA in your service contract so yea by all means
knock yourself out.

On 4/4/07, david l goodrich <dlg at dorkzilla.org> wrote:
>
> > cable really doesnt have lag if you have a good install. if you are
> there
> > for the installation and make sure they dont half ass it then you should
> > be
> > good. according to my cablemodems logs i've had ~2.1% downtime in the
> last
> > 3
> > years, mostly from storms that knocked the power out in my neighborhood.
> > and
> > hell i get 8mbps down/512 kbps up now which is more than enough for any
> > type
> > of application. granted this was implemented while im over here in iraq
> > and
> > all i can see is what i use in ssh but from what i've seen it is going
> at
> > the prescribed speeds and my wife has never had any complaints. i would
> > never suggest to host anything on it, of course(same would go for DSL).
>
> Why wouldn't you host anything off it?  I've got a 1.5Mbit/768Kbit up/down
> DSL link from internetsolver with a /29 netblock.
>
> My webservers are hosted off that link, and I'm perfectly comfortable with
> it.  I'm adding a VPN server sometime this week.  Why shouldn't I be doing
> this?
>   --david
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On 4/4/07, Jim Cole <jrcole at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have an IowaTelecom Business Line/DSL Line and it's running about
> >> $99/month for the DSL. I'm in Nevada. I've thought about looking at
> >> Mediacom
> >> but the prospect of downtime or lag kills it.
> >>
> >> -Jim
> >>
> >>
>
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