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 Speakeasy (www.speakeasy.net). I am *very* pleased with their service! They are very geek friendly. They are willing to give you multiple static IP addresses at a reasonable price (something like $5 per additional address), DNS service, a shell account, etc. The great thing is that they don't prohibit running servers on their network! They are the only residential ISP I've found that has that policy. The one downside of using Speakeasy is that they have a 1 year minimum commitment on DSL (not on dialup, though). If you cancel early then they charge you something like $250. I used to have a cable modem with RCN. Avoid them. Their service was absolutely horrid. The connection was technically *up* most of the time, but latency was the worst I've ever seen (try 30 second round trip times on pings). 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. Good luck, and welcome to Boston. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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