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 indigo
join:1999-08-22
Covina, CA
| Maine sucks for good broadband I think we have to come to accept that our state is one of the worst in the US for good broadband. No CLECs, and the DSL that IS available is overpriced and has no-server restrictions as well as high latency and low upload bandwidth.
I've finally gotten fed up and am getting a T1 put into my place before spring. Sad that it had to come to that, but it's either that or wait another decade or two for good broadband/move somewhere else. | |
| | Evals
join:2000-06-07
Hollis Center, ME
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Re: Maine sucks for good broadband From what I have been exposed to I would have to say that yes, it very much does suck. At very least in the rural towns I've lived in. My connection, while slow has been reliable as of late but the ups and downs in speed and latency (no down there, only up)as well as the lack of communication have given me my sour attitude.
If you're in Portland the options are much better. GWI is offering DSL over Verizon lines at $29.95 a month. The installs I've seen have been top notch giving good throughput as well as low latency. A T1....my wallet wouldn't support that but it would be nice for the server aspect alone. Oh the .shns I could serve!! | |
| | | indigo
join:1999-08-22
Covina, CA
| Re: Maine sucks for good broadband Unfortunately, as you can see I don't live in Portland. The only broadband options where I am are adelphia, which has a bad peering problem, plus they ban servers and have an upload cap. The other option is Fairpoint's DSL service by pivot.net, the RLEC owned ISP. They have been rather lax about servers but they're going to ban them sometime next year because of the "liability issues" and they are "nationalizing."
Either way, I ping around 22ms to my first hop, which is better than what you have, but still not as good as it should be. For instance when I had Roadrunner I pinged less than 10ms to my first hop. And Pivot's offerings are way overpriced as well:
$35 a month for 128/128 (supposively this is their "dialup competer", lol)
$43 a month for 768/128
$80 a month for 768/384
$150 a month for 1.5M/512
Yeah, the prime reason I'm getting a T1 is the servers. I've wanted good broadband I could run servers on since the mid 1990s when I first heard the cable modem hype (what a farce that turned out to be). Price has always been what has stopped me, however I got a pretty good deal on one (although it will still be very expensive, however I plan on recouping some of the cost by reselling webhosting/bandwidth) and decided to go for it. It's better than waiting around for Maine to get into the 21st century, which isn't going to happen anytime soon. | |
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