asciirider
Premium
join:2000-07-25
Chicago, IL
clubs:
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|  reply to OneDay0
Now, on a positive note
Some of us *DO have decent DSL service. and Yes, if you live in a major metro area, especially like NY of course there's going to be problems(and I've noticed it's name it Verizon). But blaming DSL in general because of the phone company is like blaming auto makers for you being stuck in rush hour traffic.
Myself, I live in Chicago (within the city limits, not a suburb) and DSL was the first option for broadband available, we've only recently gotten cable net access here in my area of the city. Ameritech actually came out and did the work when scheduled, Covad did their work on time, and I've been running at around 1.3 mbps since it was installed and tweaked, with only about 10 minutes downtime in the 3 months I've had it.
Now, as for DSL going away, with the improvements they're making, such as increasing the max distance, eventually it may, but not for awhile, and not until something better comes along.
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MiamiDSL
join:2000-09-25
Miami, FL
| I totally agree, me and my friend both live in MIAMI and regardless of the complaints, we both have very decent DSL connections and get about 1.2-1.3mbps, in 2 months time, we have only had about 1 day that DSL was out and it probably wasn't the whole day..... and yes, it is BellSouth !
DSL is very promising especially when more and more people began to experience it the way I have. |
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Omega_WA
join:2000-09-02
Norfolk, VA
| I agree. I live in a rural part of Washington State and have had excellent results with my GTE (Verizon) DSL. AT&T has been promising for the last 6 months that they would be here but they keep putting it off. Even if they were here today, I would never give up my DSL. |
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MexiCubAZ
join:2000-06-09
Phoenix, AZ
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| I just had a fellow IRCer lose their Cox cable account because they upload more than their 500MB/24hour period.
What type of crap is that? What is the point of going broadband if companies are going to terminate your because you are a power user and dl/ul too much? |
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CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County
| reply to asciirider
I also agree - I was one of the first in my small city (I actually live in Beavercreek, Ohio - not Dayton) to get DSL and it was in and running within 1 month of ordering. Not to mention that cable has been delayed 3 times in the general rollout to Dayton and its suburbs and will not be available until the middle of NEXT year - maybe.
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Freezone
join:2000-09-29
Southfield, MI
| reply to MexiCubAZ
A similar thing happened to me. I went from the big brother (scanning all my ports for open servers and the like  ) cable company to the freedom of DSL. The best thing the cable company ever did for me was to dump me.
On a side note I wonder how long the cable companies memories are on dumping users. After say 30 year will they remember? After acquisitions will they remember? Lets say you move to another cable company and there is a merger will they compare records and start dumping users? Until cable systems become more open, they can treat you any way they want to. Where as I have at least 10 options(for abuse )with dsl. |
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ghost446
join:2000-09-18
Coraopolis, PA
| reply to asciirider
I have to agree as well. I live in an older, establish section of the suburbs. The phone people (Bell/ Verizon) actually ran a whole new wire from the CO to my house (1800 ft.). My connection has been fast and reliable so far. I also think that if I were to have any problems, it would be because my ISP (Flashcom) sucks. The actual DSL technology wouldn't be the problem, so you really couldn't blame it. Once it's connected you're in. Getting it to that point is a whole new animal best eaten one small piece at a time. I also must admit that at the time, had cable been available, I would have chosen it over DSL. If cable were to become available now, I'm not so sure I would make that switch.
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AHBAC
join:2000-06-12
USA
| reply to MexiCubAZ
said by NJRammy:
I just had a fellow IRCer lose their Cox cable account because they upload more than their 500MB/24hour period.
Never have to worry about doing that with DSL, odds are you'll never stay up long enough to complete a large upload at those blazing speeds! LOL
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wheelert$93
T L C
ExMod 2002
join:2000-06-01
Lynden, ON
| reply to Freezone
I can't see where one can complain if they break the ToS and get dumped for it. However, if it wasn't in the ToS, I don't think my account would have been disconnected for very long.
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MexiCubAZ
join:2000-06-09
Phoenix, AZ
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| Wheelert: problem is that in the original TOS it never mentions a daily upload limit. Companies should inform you of changes to the TOS to let users know what is going on.
This reminds me of PhoenixDSL killing usenet without letting users know about it. I am still waiting to see official word as to the situation with usenet. |
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mustang30292
join:2000-10-05
Fort Lauderdale, FL
| reply to MiamiDSL
people need 2 stop nocking on us(dsl) users. For one thing your going to get back up where what kind of connection u have, sorda like a family thing. Bellsouth has been on the better hand for me, and i have no problem with them.. Hay if i tried out the cable modem first, i would have agreed with the cable users but nooo, there was no service around my area, a couple of months ago, and i still i think roadrunner is on its way..yeah for like the past 6 months..
DSL rules... |
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MexiCubAZ
join:2000-06-09
Phoenix, AZ
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| reply to Freezone
What gets me is that in the TOS it does not say anything about a 500MB upload limit per day!
http://www.cox.com/coxathome/agreement.asp
Look for yourselves. The url above was sent to them. |
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