 Review by houkouonchi 
UPDATED: 204 days ago
member for 6.3 years, 2008 visits, last login: a few minutes ago
 Corona,Riverside,CA
 $28 per month
 about 7 days
 SBC
 "For the most part solid speed and no real outages so far."
 "It uses PPPoE"
 "Its not bad."
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All i have to say is when i hooked it up after a quick install, a week, thats not in buiseness days, it was up and running at first i was happy because i got 512k upload, download was only 1200, but because i had actively been looking around in the pac bell forum before hand i knew it could probably be fixed easily so i gave an IM to toaster2k an awesome guy who works for pac bell and he fixed my problem in about 10 minutes, the only problems i had was getting PPPoE to work in linux it worked great on the laptop getting 4700s/512-518 speeds, as soon as i got it on my normal computer running linux now im getting 4990/512-518 not only that but it rocks so much because thats not just to local speed tests....
www.dslextreme.com = 4992/516
lax.speakeasy.net = 4974/507
sfo.speakeasy.net = 4973/508
hou.speakeasy.net = 4751/500
bos.speakeasy.net = 4874/510
nyc.speakeasy.net = 4909/506
i mean comeon to get 4900+ kilobits to east coast, getting my max speed, you know your getting good service im also getting good speeds to other countries, like 200+ KB a second to japan 380+ KB a second to germany single stream connections, so far its awesome!
update: 11/16/03:
well ive had the service for a while now and its only gone down one time for a couple hours but it was an area wide problem i now know im 4000 feet from an RT 29,700 feet from my CO and my sustained download/upload is just under 5300 kilobits down and 540 kilobits up, ive done more uploading now so i know my limits, i still have to say the service has been great also a couple places i got weird routing to in southern california have good routing now so i get >15ms to almost anywhere in southern california that isnt on a residential line with a high last hop ping.
update:2/11/03
Had the service for quite a while now but finally deciding to switch to dslextremes 6000/608 for their static ip, $60 a month and much better newsgroups, but my service was good!
Update 05/14/08:
I recently became an ATT customer again by getting their dryloop service (6meg) mainly used as backup and for extra bandwidth when I need it (part of the mix on my load balanced linux box).
So far haven't had any issues but it not being PPPoE would have been nice.
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