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On 01/08/2020 19:52, Grant Taylor wrote: |
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> On 7/31/20 2:01 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> There may be half way decent ISPs in the US, but I haven't seen one in |
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>> over 20 years since the last one I was aware of stopped dealing with |
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>> residential customers. They were a victem of the "race to the bottom" |
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>> when not enough residential customers were willing to pay $10 per |
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>> month over what Comcast or US-West was charging for half-assed, |
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>> crippled internet access). |
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> I think there is probably a good correlation between size and desire to |
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> be good and provide service. |
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> I've found that smaller ISPs (who actually try as opposed to cheating |
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> people) tend to be better. Sadly, many of these Mom & Pop type ISPs |
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> were consumed during the aptly described race to the bottom. |
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> :-( |
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> I still do consulting work with a small M&P ISP in my home town and I |
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> have a small municipal ISP where I am now. Both are quite good in many |
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> regards. Unfortunately, neither of them offer IPv6. |
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That's one of the good things about the UK scene. In theory, and mostly |
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in practice, the infrastructure (ie copper, fibre) is provided by a |
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company which is not allowed to provide the service over it, so a |
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mom-n-pop ISP can supposedly rent the link just as easily as a big ISP. |
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When we move I'll almost certainly move to Andrews and Arnold, who are |
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exactly that mom-n-pop setup that are run by a bunch of engineers, as |
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opposed to accountants. |
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Cheers, |
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