[NTLUG:Discuss] Need new ISP

[Ralph]

Howdy,
 August.net is now part of Nationwide.net.  There are good and bad
things about them.  One bad thing was mentioned by MadHat.  They have no
techs on site.  I have to go downtown and through multiple layers of
security to get to my servers.  But, I think the security is a good
thing.  Your rep should be able to give you the combination to your cage
and to your rack(separate locks).  And except for one outage of a few
hours that they never really explained, the network performance has been
great.  Under some conditions, I would recommend them for a business
that needs a reliable ISP.
  Maybe Dennis(one of our members) will start up another ISP.  There was
probably a non-compete for some period of time, but that has got to be
running out soon.
Good luck,
Ralph

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 11:38 -0500, brian at pongonova.net wrote:
> August.net used to be locally based, and I was a longtime customer.
> Immediately prior to their sellout, their reliability dropped
> drastically, and customer service became a nightmare.  I personally
> would steer way clear.