[Novalug] Patriot.Net - still a good ISP?

CPalmer cliff@palmercs.com
Thu Jan 4 05:42:24 EST 2007


Paul, I've been a PatriotNet customer for more than 2 years and I
continue to be happy with them.
HTH
Cliff

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 20:23 -0500, Paul D. Bain wrote:
> 	Over the years, I have noticed a number of participants hereon
> recommend Patriot.Net as an ISP (see, e.g., below), and I am mulling
> getting ADSL from them, too. I am concerned about possible, recent
> changes at Patriot, however, that may result from Patriot's recent
> acquisition by another company (whose name I cannot spell). Are any
> current Patriot subscribers able to comment on any recent changes in the
> reliability of Patriot's connections or on the quality of their customer
> service? Have there been any recent changes at all in Patriot's service?
> IIRC, the acquisition took place on 1 December 2006.
> 
> 	If Patriot is no longer a good ISP, then which ISP's should I consider 
> for DSL? I am also considering Covad and Cavalier Telephone, except that
> the former has gotten mixed reviews on DSLreports.com and the latter has
> gotten _lousy_ reviews there. FWIW, SpeakEasy has also undergone a
> recent change in ownership (early 2006? Not sure), and the comments on
> DSLreports clearly indicate that this change was very much for the
> *worse*. SpeakEasy no longer enjoys an excellent reputation as a DSL
> provider.
> 
> 	The reason that I want DSL is that I want to grant Internet access to
> my servers. I want others to be able to access my web servers. IOW, I do
> not think that cable internet access (Cox, in my case) would suit my needs.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Paul Bain
> 
> 
> Charles M Howe wrote:
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 12:07 -0500, mark@winksmith.com wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:09:08AM +0000, Tim Bogart wrote:
> >> > But bandwidth is bandwidth and other than reliability, it's hard to 
> >> > slather with lipstick.
> > <snip>
> > 
> > I swear by PatriotNet. I had a huge problem. It turned out that I had to
> > buy a new hard disk and install something, which was Fedora Core 3. I
> > was pretty much able to do everything except dial. The two Linux guys
> > there invited me to bring my machine out ther. I did and Cary got wvdial
> > working. I was very pleased.
> > 
> > Charlie
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