On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Mike Nielsen wrote:
> Telocity just got baought out by AT&T or at least part of their backbone did.
> Some customers are getting notice of termination of service from around
> the Twin Cities area.

Northpoint did; they went bankrupt. Some of Telocity's lines were over
NorthPoint.

> To be honest with you, if you need a decent reliable providor for DSL and
> whatnot in the Twin Cities area your best bets are companies like
>
> Qwest (I have installed well over 30+ setups with them, yeah they are a pain
> in the ass but once they work they work. And I have a personal contact at
> headquarters who can make things happen for me.  So I'm biased towards them)

Can't get it; if I could, I'd be set up with Qwest copper and Real Time as
the ISP.

> Visi - So far I have had no problem with them at all.  They will drop now and
> again but most of my clients are happy with them  (I have done probably 12+
> setups with visi)

Can't get it because I can't get Qwest DSL.

> ISD (Another smaller local company, who for the most part is pretty solid)

Ditto.

> Megapath - See Telocity

Haven't worked with them before..

> Bitstream - I have only done 3 setups with Bitstream.  A few config problems
> here and there but no downtime as of yet.

Ditto.

> RoadRunner is just starting to offer a business clas Cable service.  I don't
> think it is availiable in residential area's (Unless you twist some arms)

That sucks.

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