[Discuss] Local ISP Recommendations?

[Kent Borg]

I am looking for ISP recommendations. In Somerville.

My crusty old independent DSL provider has changed hands several times 
over the years. The most recent buyer, Global Capacity (I think it is 
now) just raised my rate considerably yet my speeds are barely enough 
for crappy video streaming. Is there something better?

Verizon messes with http headers to insert hard-cookies, so I don't want 
them. Cable companies in general have always seemed clueless to slimey 
as ISPs in general--and I am always seeing outage reports from 
Boston-area twitter users. Is there something else?

I used to have a hard requirement that I have a static IP, but maybe I 
can relax that. (Maybe I bounce things through a cheap virtual machine 
in the cloud.) Reliable, fast, plain vanilla bits. I guess my "plain 
vanilla" desire is the expensive part...

Suggestions?


Thanks,

-kb, the Kent who wishes Google Fiber would come to town, or our 
aren't-I-so-terribly-hip Mayor Curtatone would find us some good bits.