[wplug] Steel City Broadband

[Moshe Katz-Hyman]

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Speakeasy++

They are t3h r0x0r, as all the hip kids say. ;-P


On Aug 30, 2004, at 3:20 PM, Dave Neuer wrote:

>
> --- "joseph s. gordon iv" <jgordon at telerama.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>     i was curious if anybody had experience or heard
>> stories about the
>> use of Steel City Broadband for DSL service on the
>> list?
>
> I just switched from them (was a Verio customer that
> got marooned w/out service and had to get re-connected
> fast).
>
> Their service used to be incredibly unreliable. They
> seemed unable to keep 2 DNS servers running (packets
> would just dissappear inside their network).
>
> Lately, I had had very few problems which seemed
> mostly to be caused by my flaky modem and WiFi router.
> And their main tech support guy, Joe, is pretty
> responsive and competent.
>
> The terms of their contract were pretty horrendous,
> too; can't cancel before 2 years w/ out penalty, even
> after that requires 30 days written notice, and if you
> don't return the modem to them they charge you $250
> for it. (By contrast, I have two old DSL modems from
> previous providers lying around and was never asked to
> return them).
>
> But I'd heard so much good stuff about Speakeasy that
> I switched to them. Gets installed at my new house on
> Wednesday, we'll see how that goes.
>
> Good luck, sorry to any SC employees who may be on the
> list, but those are my honest impressions.
>
> Dave
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