SF Bay Area broadband recommendations?

[firecat]

The OH wrote elsewhere:

So Speakeasy just got bought out by Best Buy. Ewwww! I'm not changing
immediately, but I'd like some current recommendations for broadband
choices in the SF Bay Area. We prefer non-cable but are willing to
consider anything reliable at this point (we currently do not have a
cable hookup).

Press release here:
http://www.speakeasy.net/press/pr/pr032707.php

Comments

[elainegrey.livejournal.com]

Up until rather recently we'd been UTTERLY DELIGHTED with Raw Bandwidth. We're not leaving yet, either. Might be our problem, but the owner communicates well with geeks and has been very supportive of the non geek friends we set up with them.

[opus119.livejournal.com]

I've been with Raw Bandwidth (formerly Tsoft) for all of this millennium and a few years of the previous one. They are terrific. It's really a one-man operation, and Mike is amazingly responsive and helpful. I've had DSL with them at two different locations, and each time the setup was a breeze.

Another thing I like about rawbw is that you can get a shell account on their BSD machine for cheap. I use this to read email when I'm away from home, which is almost every day. It's ever so much faster to use ssh and mutt than web-based email.