[UFO Chicago] chicago-area high speed internet

[Ian Bicking]

I can't speak to any spam issues, but I've had DirectTV for a while, and
it's been okay.  I'm not clear who other DSL providers use as their
basic provider -- I'm guessing it's just Covad and Ameritech left.  Ever
since I got switched to Ameritech from Rhythms the quality of the
connection has gone down significantly -- the connection gets dropped
from time to time and sometime's it's strangely slow.

But, it is cheaper than Speakeasy, the gateway is nice and easy to
configure, and you don't have to buy a modem.

Now, that said, if you have any other sorts of questions about
neighborhoods in Chicago or something, feel free to ask that too.  We
don't spend quite all of our time in front of computer screens :)  Most
of us live on the North Side.

On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 22:59, Rob Latham wrote:
> So it's a done deal and i'm moving to the chicago area within the month.
> I don't care about "good schools" or "nice neighborhoods".  But i do
> care about a fast internet connection :>  
> 
> Who should i stay away from?  who's good?  is speakeasy good in chicago?
> they are pretty decent here in pennsylvania.  
> 
> heh.  and just so i stay on topic for the list, i want a solid fast
> connection so i can apt-get dist-upgrade my debian box and keep my
> netbsd-current synced up :>   There we go.. fast internet for free
> operating systems.   what do you say, gang?
> 
> Thanks
> ==rob
> 
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> Rob Latham                                        Allentown, PA USA
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