[Discuss] business class ISP recommendations

[sronan at panix.com (Stephen Ronan)]

If you were in their limited Boston/Cambridge footprint, I'd 
highly recommend Netblazr for fixed wireless.
   -s.

On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Tom Metro wrote:

> Tom Metro wrote:
>> ...I'm looking to get business class Internet service
>> for a home office. At my location I have an "embarrassment of riches"
>> and yet none of these are companies I want to do business with:
>>
>> Verizon Business FIOS
>> Comcast Business cable Internet
>> RCN Business cable Internet
>
> All the news about the congested peering points at Comcast and Verizon
> (which I'm guessing impacts business class customers as well) makes me
> even more unlikely to want to do business with these companies that I
> was already predisposed to avoid.
>
> That leaves RCN, which per Netflix's stats
> (http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/usa or see Google's version:
> http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/) actually ranks faster
> than Comcast and Verizon. RCN is also small enough that they wouldn't
> have the negotiating power to play these sorts of games with content
> providers.
>
> But, dealing with RCN's pre-sales operation has been lousy. I've gone
> weeks trying to get a few simple questions answered. And their coverage
> database is apparently so unreliable that they actually had to roll a
> truck to verify that my location had service.
>
> Another possibility I recently ran across (on Google's recommended ISP
> list) is:
> http://usai.net/
>
> which does fixed-wireless links in the Boston and immediate suburbs.
>
> Anyone with experience with this company?
>
> -Tom
>
> -- 
> Tom Metro
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