[Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I use Marshallnet DSL for business. There are very reliable and have
ample bandwidth. They also provide really good virus/scanning and spam
filtering with their email. 

Excellant service.


:) Dave

On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 07:26, 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?
> 
> 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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