Hate to go against the grain here, folks, but I've had Verizon DSL coming up on 2 years now and I've been largely pleased. I started with 384k and just recently bumped to 768k (had to wait for some cable plant upgrades). I've had a total of 3 outages: one cable cut by the landscaper (GTE never came to mark the line locations), one dead router at the ISP and one DSLAM failure at the CO. Speed issues are usually problems outside of my ISPs network.
One thing to keep in mind is that the regulatory environment is quite different for phone companies than cable companies. Cable seems nearly impervious to complaints to the state utilities commission where the phone companies tend to hop a bit faster when you mention bringing up service issues with regulators. Also, while I'm stuck with Verizon as the line provider, due to good old fashioned government regulation, I have a choice of ISPs so I can find one with policies with which I agree (a local, linux-friendly mom 'n pop outfit that happily provides static IPs & doesn't mind if you run servers) instead of being stuck with the unbending & restrictive service policies of my local cable monopoly. Also, I've haven't yet heard of a DSL provider that applies QOS rules to their network in order to increase the bandwidth to favoured vendors.
Screw cable.
-xski
Let me guess - you are a technically savvy computer user and naturally think you have some mega IQ that entitals you to vote with wisdom on issues? You just as much of a sheep as anyone else is you fuck head. None of what you mention has anything to do with it. The problem is not that sheep (masses, townspeople, villiagers, or in the words of Mel Brooks 'Morons') can vote, its that they don't vote wisely. This is not to say they don't have have something resembling wisdom, the gripe is that they don't USE it.
You can't, for example, sue a knife manufacturer because you got stabbed by one, whether you did it, or someone else did.
Actually, I think that's exactly what the City of Chicago is doing to firearm manufacturers. And the Feds are looking into it. So much for that argument.
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Hate to go against the grain here, folks, but I've had Verizon DSL coming up on 2 years now and I've been largely pleased. I started with 384k and just recently bumped to 768k (had to wait for some cable plant upgrades). I've had a total of 3 outages: one cable cut by the landscaper (GTE never came to mark the line locations), one dead router at the ISP and one DSLAM failure at the CO. Speed issues are usually problems outside of my ISPs network. One thing to keep in mind is that the regulatory environment is quite different for phone companies than cable companies. Cable seems nearly impervious to complaints to the state utilities commission where the phone companies tend to hop a bit faster when you mention bringing up service issues with regulators. Also, while I'm stuck with Verizon as the line provider, due to good old fashioned government regulation, I have a choice of ISPs so I can find one with policies with which I agree (a local, linux-friendly mom 'n pop outfit that happily provides static IPs & doesn't mind if you run servers) instead of being stuck with the unbending & restrictive service policies of my local cable monopoly. Also, I've haven't yet heard of a DSL provider that applies QOS rules to their network in order to increase the bandwidth to favoured vendors. Screw cable. -xski
Sweet! When do they go online?
Let me guess - you are a technically savvy computer user and naturally think you have some mega IQ that entitals you to vote with wisdom on issues? You just as much of a sheep as anyone else is you fuck head. None of what you mention has anything to do with it. The problem is not that sheep (masses, townspeople, villiagers, or in the words of Mel Brooks 'Morons') can vote, its that they don't vote wisely. This is not to say they don't have have something resembling wisdom, the gripe is that they don't USE it.
Actually, I think that's exactly what the City of Chicago is doing to firearm manufacturers. And the Feds are looking into it. So much for that argument.