Review by impala 
UPDATED: 1.3 years ago
member for 1.7 years, 182 visits, last login: 28 days ago
 Clemson,Pickens,SC
 $32 per month (12 month contract)
 BellSouth
 "easy, get advertised throughput"
 "random disconnects; occasional dns failures"
 "not perfect, but it 'just works' most of the time"
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I signed up last May '07 before ATT took over. It is bundled with POTS for a $5 discount from the $32.95 cost. It was very easy. I asked for extreme 3mbps with free home wireless router. However my line only qualified for ultra 1.5mbps. They were nice enough to send the free wireless router modem anyway, and said they would upgrade me to 3 mbps when I qualified. A year later I still don't qualify. They sent a Westell Versalink 327W D90-327W30-06. It's a capable wireless B-G unit. I'm running WEP2 PSK (AES) on the wireless. I had trouble keeping a stable connection and called tech support several times (OUCH!). Tech support was competent, but reading a script; could be worse. My line stats stink. I couldn't get a truck roll but they put me on an interleaved noise profile. Connection is much more stable, but still manages to drop at inconvenient times. I'm not a gamer so I don't mind the interleaved connection. A simple ping gives first hop round trip = 30ms average and 22ms median. A ping along with a maxed out download gives first hop round trip = 88ms average and 92ms median. I don't game so I don't mind the interleaved. After repeated trouble with DNS servers, I fixed the secondary server to opendns. Primary dns is still att. Works well.
Modulation: G.DMT Mode
Data Path: Interleaved
Transceiver Information / Down Stream Path / Up Stream Path
DSL Sync Rate (Kbits/Sec) / 1472 / 256
SN Margin (db) / 10.0 / 12.0
Line Attenuation (db) / 58.5 / 31.5
CRC Errors / 1022 / 26 / (10.5 hrs light use)
Tx Power: / 16.8 / 2.5
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