http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19242277 en Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:50:35 EDT Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:50:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19295228 spoda : Yeah, I'm in the same boat. Qwest or Wave Cable are my only options. Qwest has 7/896 for almost half the price. Kinda hard to argue with that, except for their routing, which sucks. I've been paying 65 bucks for 1.5/896 for quite some time and it's time to save some money. I will miss the low latency, though.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19295228 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:33:30 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19245522 DMyers : Sironin,

Give me a call, I work at Speakeasy, and I can really give you a hand with what you have and would be able to change it up if need be. 866 233 1998. Hope to talk to you!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19245522 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:08:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19242277 Sironin : I currently have a very old package with Speakeasy. It's the Gamer ADSL 1.5/384 that I got back in 2004. Some of the things that really sold me on this package back in 2004 was Speakeasy was one of the few companies offering a residential customer more than 1 IP address.

One of the biggest attractions of the package was the low latency. I'm surprised that companies go after maximum speed claims when latency and connection stability are way, way more important. Especially if you're trying to pwn noobs in online games. Nothing sucks more than cruising along to suddenly find yourself uncontrollably jittering across the landscape because the latency just went over a second.

Currently, Verizon doesn't offer FIOS in my area, so Comcast has no reason to compete against it. I've had Comcast before and I certainly wasn't happy about how stupid their customer support was. Both companies had very onerous EULAs about what you can run behind their service. Has that changed at all? (They didn't allow you to run any kind of server on their networks).

So are there any other companies out there that offer gamer/computer enthusiast-friendly packages? Or should I be looking at the business class products?

Here's what I'm currently paying and I'd like to keep it around there:
Gamer ADSL 1.5/384 Self-Install (C) Service Period 10/20/2007 thru 11/20/2007 *Monthly Line Charge 59.95*Tax Reimbursement (g): Sales Tax - State 1.70*Tax Reimbursement (g): Statutory Gross Receipts Tax - State 1.35*Regulatory Compliance Fee 3.57Subtotal 66.57
And I suppose I need to talk to them about those (g) items...
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