[164530] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: One of our own in the Guardian.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jima)
Sun Jul 14 21:08:33 2013
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:08:16 -0600
From: Jima <nanog@jima.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <51E209DD.5020702@jima.us>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2013-07-13 20:15, Jima wrote:
> I can happily state that XMission is my home ISP, with UTOPIA
> (city-involved fiber optic provider) as the local loop. (Really, who
> has 100/100 at home?)
Thanks to everyone who responded -- my list of places I'm willing to
live is rounding out. ;-)
XMission does offer 1000/1000, as well; I seem to recall the price is
something like $300/mo. For us, the problem was more finding remote
sites that can push data rates anywhere near one's own limit (as it's
enough of a problem at 100mbit), making the price bump not quite worth it.
The unfortunate fallout from having such great service is that I live
in fear of having to move outside of a UTOPIA service area, and back to
the duopoly providers (Comcast & CenturyLink for the most part here).
One might suggest getting XMission over DSL, but CenturyLink has been
locking out third-party providers as they've rolled out ADSL2.
Jima
