Review by ydoucare 
UPDATED: 252 days ago
member for 6.6 years, 2091 visits, last login: 3 days ago
 Rensselaer,Jasper,IN
 Contract price not specified. (12 month contract)
 about 5 days
 "Excellent speed, quick install"
 "None yet"
 "5 Mb for $40 with bundle - great deal for this area"
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I live in a rural part of NW Indiana, roughly 9 - 10 miles from the nearest town (5k pop). Embarq recently deployed DSL out into these rural areas, so I had to jump on it. I ordered the 5/768 tier on 2/11/09 via the Embarq website. This was the bundle deal with basic voice for $70. The Zyxel 660 modem arrived Saturday, 2/14/09, while the service was set to be activated on Monday, 2/16.
Got a call around 3 PM on Monday (2/16) to confirm that DSL was ready on my line. So I setup the modem, and it was working. Did a few speed tests and got consistent results of 5/768. »www.speedtest.net/result/412431696.png
The only thing I could say that I am disappointed in is the first hop latency, which is right at 41 ms (same as our Embarq business line at work). A relative of mine who lives a couple miles farther out of town than me sees around 18 ms to the first hop. I do understand the difference between interleave and fastpath...and that not everyone that is on interleave sees the same first hop latency. I talked to a tech that said the equipment I am on does not support fastpath (ADSL2+?).
I will post an update to this review in a week, and follow-up with more updates in the future.
==/ Update - 2/24/09 \==
Someone from Embarq was kind enough to switch my line to fastpath, so my latency has dropped by roughly 20 - 25 ms. Service is still solid, 5000/768 24/7.
»www.speedtest.net/result/417549310.png
==/ Update - 3/1/09 \==
Everything is still going good. However, latency went back up by about 15 ms. There seems to be a 20 ms jump to a level3 hop that was previously much lower. Can't fault Embarq for it though.
Tracing route to google.com [74.125.67.100]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.13
2 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms in-67-236-128-1.dhcp.embarqhsd.net [67.236.128.1
]
3 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms host-67-235-59-209.sta.embarqservices.net [67.23
5.59.209]
4 38 ms 38 ms 38 ms ge-6-21.car2.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.71.250.17]
5 38 ms 37 ms 38 ms vlan52.ebr2.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.69.138.190]
6 56 ms 54 ms 55 ms ae-2-2.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.132.70]
7 55 ms 68 ms 56 ms ae-62-62.csw1.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.1
46]
8 55 ms 56 ms 56 ms ae-1-69.edge1.Washington1.Level3.net [4.68.17.16
]
9 65 ms 80 ms 64 ms GOOGLE-INC.edge1.Washington1.Level3.net [4.79.22
8.38]
10 83 ms 64 ms 64 ms 209.85.130.18
11 64 ms 64 ms 65 ms 216.239.48.69
12 65 ms 67 ms 66 ms 72.14.239.127
13 75 ms 71 ms 75 ms 64.233.174.46
14 64 ms 66 ms 65 ms google.com [74.125.67.100]
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