hawgwild
join:2000-06-16
Scottsdale, AZ
| reply to lscott5
Re: Oh well....
As another Northpoint refugee I still have mixed feeling about the whole thing. At first my DSL line was great, at 208/208 it was a major upgrade to a dial up connection even though it took over a month to get US West to actually connect the copper. But when the ISP that sold me the Northpoint line went belly up and the accounts were bought and then sold right away by Megapath, that was the beginning of the end. The company that bought my account, Telocity (herein known as Teloshitty) was the worst ISP, and not by a little, I've ever dealt with. From their proprietary "frankenstein" modem, to their unscrupulous business practices, to the outright lies they told during the Northpoint liquidation, puts them on my Top 10 Worst companies to deal with. I'd go back to dial up before I'd deal with them again.
As a matter of fact I did go back to dial up, for almost 6 months until Cox wired my neighborhood for cable internet. Now instead of a 208/208 DSL connection for $50 a month, I have a 3000/256 (and I usually surpass that by a bit) cable connection that's rock solid. I wouldn't go back to DSL unless it were free.
The people at AT&T who made that decision deserve to lose their jobs, it was monumentally stupid. But I guess they're big enough to absorb a loss like that and survive. I guess it's probably just chump change to AT&T. |
