[Discuss] Local ISP Recommendations?

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 01/18/2016 10:57 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
> Broadband Reports says that 02143 ZIP has Verizon, Xfinity DSL,
> Verizon FIOS, Extreme DSL and RCN.

Last *I* tried to search my zip code I got garbage results. But your 
"Extreme DSL" is a good lead! I actually find it as "DSL Extreme", but 
they seem to have a good service at a nice price.

Their web site seems to have a nice firewall control: port 25 is blocked 
by default, but I can unblock it for myself. (I am crazy, I run my own 
e-mail server.)

The reviews I see suggest they don't have a lot of staff sitting around 
to fix things that go wrong, but that mostly they know what they are 
doing and things don't go wrong.

Their service choices are interesting, but once I put in my phone number 
the options are fewer and I don't see any static IP choice. I sent them 
a web-form "e-mail" asking about that...

-kb

P.S. The extra charge for static IP on their web site is a lot and gets 
a lot worse with speed, makes me toy with the idea of getting two lines 
(if they are willing, and if Verizon has the copper pairs available on 
my street): one line that is fast but dynamic IP and one that is slow 
but static IP. That would be a chance to learn some networking...