[CLUE-Tech] hosting-from-home bandwith recommendations

[Dave Price]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 08:27:45AM -0700, Jeffery Cann wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I have been using AT&T Broadband cable internet for about 3 years.  I have 
> been happy with it.  Since it is a consumer product, it's great for surfing, 
> but bad for hosting.  In fact, it's not allowed by AT&T.
> 
> When I first got AT&T, Qwest did not offer DSL in my neighborhood, even though 
> I am two blocks from a switch building.  Now they can and I am would like to 
> bring in a DSL line so I can run some hosting services from my house.  Shared 
> hosting is not an option, given that I need control of the server(s) and the 
> software I will run is not cheap to run on shared servers.  Colocation could 
> be an option, but I'm not sure it's my limited price range and I don't have a 
> rack-mount server.
> 
> I like the Qwest DSL Pro series of products because I can increase the 
> bandwidth up to 7 Mbps down / 1Mbps up.  At a minimum, I'll need 256k 
> upstream and a SLA.
> 
> So, I am looking for recommendations on ISPs, DSL providers.
> 
one word ...  FRII ... they can do static dsl for 1/2 of qwests price

aloha,
dave