Boston area: DSL provider recommendations, anyone?

[randomness]

Anyone in the area anyone really like? Work is willing to pay for broadband, although price is nevertheless a consideration.

Please email or comment if you have anyone you'd really like to recommend or really like to suggest I avoid.

Thanks!

Comments

[frotz.livejournal.com]

I like Worldband a whole lot. I helped someone else with phone wiring when they signed up with those folks, and they have very clueful techs, and the letter with the DSL model has a couple of paragraphs of "welcome to Worldband" boilerplate along with the essential IP parameters. Just my speed.

I have Verizon at home, their higher-speed residential service. It's very very drone-consumer-oriented (let me know if you want pointers on shortcutting all the crap without running their wretched install tools) and it's a dynamic address with PPPoE, but otherwise it's been quite reliable and it's cheap. I've seen brief drops a few times late at night when I think things were being reconfigured (none lately) and one major outage that they were very good at communicating about.

[starheptagon.livejournal.com]

Me too (funny that). Last year when my DSL modem died, they DROVE OUT with another one in person on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

Do tell. Verizon's installer is famous for taking forever and doing crap like deleting all your
bookmarks during a lame brain damaged attempt to insert some.