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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:51:10 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Service had degraded to almost IDSL speeds when raining</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have had Speekeasy for 5 years, after some initial issues back in 2004 they have been flawless.  In the past 3 months, after a cable fault in the NYC area, every single time it rains  my service goes down.  When it is not raining the only stable speed that keeps the margins up to usable levels is less then 1Mb.  This is CLEARLY a cable issue, but Covad will not budge and dispatch a Verizon tech without first scheduling a billable call for a CPE check. I have spoken to several, very nice representatives from Speakeasy, but all of the conversations have gone nowhere towards resolving this frustration.  Right now, it is raining here in NYC and my speed is 507kb up and 431 down.  I am paying for 6/768.   I think that the time has come to part ways with Speakeasy, I can get TWC new wideband service 50/5 for $20.00 less than I am paying now. Only reason I have not jumped to the cable camp is that they only offer a dynamic IP address, which will not work for my office VPN and my IT manager will not budge on this requirement. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-12-09 11:58:07</pubDate>
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<title>Speakeasy slow for wow and hulu</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23447799</link>
<description><![CDATA[Within the past 4 or 5 months, things have slowed down horribly for me.    Anytime I've called up, they've reconfigured my virtual circuit which is all well and good -- but I may have to move on to an ISP that can resolve this.

  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  192.168.0.1
  2   334 ms   310 ms   308 ms  er1.nyc1.speakeasy.net [216.254.64.1]
  3   380 ms   261 ms    67 ms  220.ge-0-1-0.cr2.nyc1.speakeasy.net [69.17.83.201]
  4    20 ms    18 ms    19 ms  166.90.136.33
  5    18 ms    18 ms    30 ms  vlan51.csw1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.68.97.30]
  6    20 ms    19 ms    19 ms  ae-13-69.car3.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.68.16.5]
  7    19 ms    19 ms    19 ms  att-level3-oc192.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.68.127.150]
  8   448 ms   269 ms   238 ms  cr1.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.122.131.146]
  9   223 ms   229 ms   238 ms  cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.1.2]
 10    93 ms    94 ms    94 ms  cr1.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.2.53]
 11    92 ms    95 ms    93 ms  cr2.dvmco.ip.att.net [12.122.31.85]
 12    93 ms    94 ms    94 ms  cr1.slkut.ip.att.net [12.122.30.25]
 13   254 ms   307 ms   304 ms  cr2.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.30.30]
 14   359 ms   356 ms   303 ms  cr84.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.123.30.249]
 15   273 ms   174 ms   165 ms  gar5.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.129.25]
...

Whiskey tango foxtrot.  I used to get a consistent ping time of 30-100ms across the board.  Something changed.  If this keeps up, I'll end up leaving as soon as my contract is up.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-12-06 19:23:08</pubDate>
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<title>Adding to the list of former Speakeasy customers</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23036375</link>
<description><![CDATA[I've been with Speakeasy for years.  I came over as a former Telocity customer after they went belly up.  Speakeasy have always been helpful diligent in helping debug my link.  I also appreciated the indie rock as hold music.  I moved about 3 years ago, they transferred my service with no problem.  When my new address had latency issues they sent me a new modem and helped to work through it.  The latency issue has always remained a problem and tends to be bursty.  At my address, I don't really qualify for much of a speed upgrade and the pricing is pretty steep for the speed upgrade I do qualify for.  I've been paying the same price for my DSL connection since I signed up with no speed improvements.

I finally got frustrated after returning from a family trip and had to upload a bunch of photos to my website.  It took forever and my connection was useless during the 2 hour upload process.  

After reading reviews of Comcast Business here on the Speakeasy forum, I'm getting Comcast business at 12/2 Mbps plus 1 static IP for $64/mo.  I am paying $49.95/mo for 1.5/0.384 Mbps plus 1 static IP.  

I have to say that so far I'm impressed with the speed of Comcast's customer service.  I called today, signed my contract, and got my truck roll scheduled for Friday (could have been tomorrow but I couldn't make it).  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-09-16 21:49:39</pubDate>
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