{"id":1000496,"date":"2007-03-28T06:11:25","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T11:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/networks\/2007\/03\/28\/looking-for-a-new-isp\/"},"modified":"2007-03-29T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T13:16:07","slug":"looking-for-a-new-isp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/networks\/2007\/03\/28\/looking-for-a-new-isp\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a New ISP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speakeasy is planning to be <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070327-speakeasy-acquired-by-best-buy.html\">acquired by Best Buy<\/a> sometime next year. Speakeasy has been far from perfect in the 5 years or so I&#8217;ve had it (roughly since Northpoint went under). However, it&#8217;s usually been adequate, which is more than I can say for most ISPs. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve been willing to pay more for the service. It&#8217;s hard to believe simple competence will continue under Best Buy. (Just consider what a Best Buy acquisition <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/consumer\/best-buy\/geek-squad-gouges-197249.php\">did to the Geek Squad<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Any other suggestions for quality ISP service? I&#8217;m currently paying about $120 a month for SpeakEasy. Perhaps I should just combine a couple of different low cost ISPs (e.g. Verizon and Cablevision) along with a hosting package at DreamHost or some such. Probably wouldn&#8217;t cost any more and would provide some level of redundancy for the inevitable outages. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speakeasy is planning to be acquired by Best Buy sometime next year. Speakeasy has been far from perfect in the 5 years or so I&#8217;ve had it (roughly since Northpoint went under). However, it&#8217;s usually been adequate, which is more than I can say for most ISPs. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve been willing to pay more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networks","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}