I know this is late news, but I just can’t believe that my favorite ISP of all time has been bought by a company that really seems totally incompatible with their culture.
I’ve posted many times before on this blog about how great Speakeasy is(was) as an ISP. They recognized that your internet connection was yours to do with as you wish, and as such had no ridiculous restrictions prohibiting running your own servers, etc. I happily did this myself for quite a while until I moved too far away to keep using them. They also didn’t get nosy on what you were doing with YOUR bandwidth that you paid for, so they wouldn’t do things like artificially slowdown certain types of traffic (VOIP, BitTorrent, etc.) Even better, their tech support was second to none; you could even call them up and ask them a question about the Linux web server you were hosting on their connection and the first person you talked to was knowledgeable enough to be able to give you an informed answer.
I can only imagine (knowing some of the anti-customer tendencies of BB), that this era is over. Too bad.
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I did a bandwidth speed test from here to LA and then to NY and ” speakeasy ” was the title of the server??
I have cable and is speakeasy the ISP they use?
SpeakEasy does also run probably the most popular speed test sites, so that’s what you were using.
If you have cable in Ventura you either have Wave Broadband (if you live in the area once served by Avenue Cable) or Time Warner (if you used to be served by Adelphia, which previously took over from Century Cable in this area, I believe).
These companies aren’t related to SpeakEasy, though. SpeakEasy offered DSL service as an alternative to the local telcos. They were more expensive, but worth it (IMO) because of their non-restrictive terms of service and excellent support.
Actually, after looking at your IP, I can see that you’re on Time Warner cable (assuming you posted that comment from home).
Yes, it is from home. I have the basic road runner internet and
running at 1.45 Mps down and 360 K up. Good enough to do some
point to point business level videoconferencing.
I pinged your site and the round trip was 54 ms as opposed to dc’s which was 32 ms.
I had a few minutes to fool around.
I think those differences are probably pretty random. We both actually use the same hosting service (and I think even the same plan), so the times are likely to average out about the same if you were to repeat those tests.