Since moving to the area 20+ yrs ago, I've had the opportunity to sample the three (3) ISPs in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area - AT&T, TWC (now Spectrum), and most recently Frontier. All three were contracted for Phone/TV/Internet, for the $$, I have found Frontier to be the best deal, albeit the DSL speeds don't compare to what currently being offered by AT&T and Spectrum. Frontier's service is at least as good as AT&T/Spectrum from a consumer end, enough so that I became a shareholder. Needless to say, the bankruptcy will probably zero out my investment and influence any decision I have to stay with them in the future.
Google fiber is supposed to be coming to my area, and hopefully will be something that I consider in the future.
I'll 2nd (or is higher by now) Brian Krebs point on technical contacts. For several years I monitored attacks on my network and after getting the IP address would do a whois lookup to determine who to contact. Several times I was able to help locate a rogue machine that the technical contact was unaware of, other times we identified machines that had been hijacked. I'm sure that there are nefarious uses, but I found the technical contact info to be critical to unwinding bot attacks.
But Tampa area fans *can* get the Yankees on their cable/satellite if they subscribe to the YES network. They pay extra for the channel, but wouldn't that also impact the Rays??
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Since moving to the area 20+ yrs ago, I've had the opportunity to sample the three (3) ISPs in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area - AT&T, TWC (now Spectrum), and most recently Frontier. All three were contracted for Phone/TV/Internet, for the $$, I have found Frontier to be the best deal, albeit the DSL speeds don't compare to what currently being offered by AT&T and Spectrum. Frontier's service is at least as good as AT&T/Spectrum from a consumer end, enough so that I became a shareholder. Needless to say, the bankruptcy will probably zero out my investment and influence any decision I have to stay with them in the future.
Google fiber is supposed to be coming to my area, and hopefully will be something that I consider in the future.
Whois technical contact
I'll 2nd (or is higher by now) Brian Krebs point on technical contacts. For several years I monitored attacks on my network and after getting the IP address would do a whois lookup to determine who to contact. Several times I was able to help locate a rogue machine that the technical contact was unaware of, other times we identified machines that had been hijacked.
I'm sure that there are nefarious uses, but I found the technical contact info to be critical to unwinding bot attacks.
jerry
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But Tampa area fans *can* get the Yankees on their cable/satellite if they subscribe to the YES network. They pay extra for the channel, but wouldn't that also impact the Rays??