When I lived in Rochester, NY I had a RoadRunner cable modem. I later tried out the Optimum Online
services on eastern Long Island. They were both good, but when i moved to Bergen County, NJ, there were no cable modems available. A friend of mine who lives in Manhattan had Bell Atlantic
DSL and he would say that when it did work (which was rare) it was slower than his 56k modem.
Well, i decided to order DSL anyway, but not from Bell Atlantic. I ordered it from Mindspring (now EarthLink) who uses Covad as a backbone provider.
I am now convinced that my DSL is much better than my cable modems ever were.
Though the windows software (pppoe) that mindspring gave me with the installation had some serious problems, once I switched to the linux PPPoE client, I haven't had ONE Single service interuption. With my previous cable modems interuptions did happen from time to time.
The DSL is also a bit more secure. My IP is more dinamic, and the PPPoE configuration allows me to easily set up a virtual firewall that prevents incomming connections (i have to change it when i want to run nap).
That said, i will also say that the customer service really sucks.
They told me that it would take 2 weeks to install my DSL and it took 3 1/2 months.
To MindSpring's credit, they did give me a free month for that.
Another thing that sucks is that when your dealing with 3 separate companies working together to install your DSL, you will never speak to anyone who is responsible for a problem. Its always the other complany's fault, and they alway put in a "request" to get the problem fixed which never gets seen by anyone.
But now that its installed, its great. 1.5M/384K is a really good deal for $49 a month.
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When I lived in Rochester, NY I had a RoadRunner cable modem. I later tried out the Optimum Online
services on eastern Long Island. They were both good, but when i moved to Bergen County, NJ, there were no cable modems available. A friend of mine who lives in Manhattan had Bell Atlantic
DSL and he would say that when it did work (which was rare) it was slower than his 56k modem.
Well, i decided to order DSL anyway, but not from Bell Atlantic. I ordered it from Mindspring (now EarthLink) who uses Covad as a backbone provider.
I am now convinced that my DSL is much better than my cable modems ever were.
Though the windows software (pppoe) that mindspring gave me with the installation had some serious problems, once I switched to the linux PPPoE client, I haven't had ONE Single service interuption. With my previous cable modems interuptions did happen from time to time.
The DSL is also a bit more secure. My IP is more dinamic, and the PPPoE configuration allows me to easily set up a virtual firewall that prevents incomming connections (i have to change it when i want to run nap).
That said, i will also say that the customer service really sucks.
They told me that it would take 2 weeks to install my DSL and it took 3 1/2 months.
To MindSpring's credit, they did give me a free month for that.
Another thing that sucks is that when your dealing with 3 separate companies working together to install your DSL, you will never speak to anyone who is responsible for a problem. Its always the other complany's fault, and they alway put in a "request" to get the problem fixed which never gets seen by anyone.
But now that its installed, its great. 1.5M/384K is a really good deal for $49 a month.
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