From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 28 16:22:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from paris.dppl.com (paris.dppl.com [205.230.74.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B237315499 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:22:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yds@ingress.net) Received: (qmail 144 invoked from network); 28 Jun 1999 23:22:31 -0000 Received: from ichiban.ingress.com (HELO ichiban) (205.230.64.31) by paris.dppl.com with SMTP; 28 Jun 1999 23:22:31 -0000 Message-ID: <00c201bec1bd$1b4eee90$1f40e6cd@ingress.com> From: "Yarema" To: "Pat Lynch" Cc: "FreeBSd Chat list" References: Subject: Re: Of SDSL, speed and bad ISPs Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 19:22:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Thats should have read "just outside on NYC", I'm in Lodi, NJ > > Speaking of which, who is actually interested in getting together from the > NYC/NJ area? I tried this once before, for the Users Group...I'd like to > have another meeting soon, but I want to drum up as many users as > possible. -Pat IngressNet, the ISP I work for sells both Covad and NorthPoint DSL in the NYC/NJ area. If an area is covered by both companies I'll choose Covad over NorthPoint in every case unless a customer demands otherwise. Covad is more responsive and has a much better support infrastructure for the ISPs than NorthPoint. If you are in Hudson County though, your choices are BellAtlantic and Northpoint. BellAtlantic should be avoided at all costs. Yes I'm biased. Not because I perceive them as competitors, rather cuz BellAtlantic has given me too much grief as a vendor to ever trust them. For home use I recently subscribed to Comcast@Home cable service. IMO, the best deal around where available. I've hit download speeds of >200KBps (yes, I did mean bytes not bits per second) and it's only $40/month including $10 to lease the cable modem and a static IP is included. latencies are a bit high sometimes, but otherwise the speed is more than acceptable for the price. Also next time there's a FUNY get-together, could someone let me know directly? I'd like to attend, but if it's only announced on one of these FreeBSD lists I might miss it. Thanks. -- Yarema SysAdmin IngressNet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message