We have been using GTE South (now Verizon) for about a year now for our DSL service. The hook-up took about 3 weeks. They, for one, didn't know how to hook up DSL (I ended up doing all the inhouse wiring and setting up the modem), and they didn't have a substation capable of supporting DSL in our vicinity.
We live out in the country, and had no other option but to wait until they solved the problem. Which I am pleased to say went rather quickly. We are just lucky that the 3 weeks the quoted us didn't spawn out into months.. or even years.
Currently they are providing us with 384/384 service, and we love it! To date we have been down twice.. typically for about 8 hrs each time. I must say its a lot better track record than the Analog and ISDN modems we had in the past.
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We have been using GTE South (now Verizon) for about a year now for our DSL service. The hook-up took about 3 weeks. They, for one, didn't know how to hook up DSL (I ended up doing all the inhouse wiring and setting up the modem), and they didn't have a substation capable of supporting DSL in our vicinity.
We live out in the country, and had no other option but to wait until they solved the problem. Which I am pleased to say went rather quickly. We are just lucky that the 3 weeks the quoted us didn't spawn out into months.. or even years.
Currently they are providing us with 384/384 service, and we love it! To date we have been down twice.. typically for about 8 hrs each time. I must say its a lot better track record than the Analog and ISDN modems we had in the past.