I agree. I've never had anything remotely resembling a satisfying experience dealing with US Worst. When I lived in Central Phoenix, they managed to screw up the billing on my ISDN line for five months in a row, and at least five days out of each month was "down time" for the ISDN line.
Now, I'm online with SpeedChoice, but using a commercial account so that I can use their bidirectional wireless link (not yet available for residential installations.) I get 10MBit downstream, 32kbit CIR on the uplink, burstable to 256kbit on the uplink. This translates roughly to a saturated link at between 5 and 7MBit due to the nature of the loop.
But it doesn't require another phone line, and it doesn't require stepping into that pit of Hell known as US West.
I can't get DSL (MegaBit, or MegaWait, or whatever you want to call it) from US West in this area - apparently, Scottsdale isn't very high on their list for updating equipment, despite the upcoming need for new lines in the Los Arcos area. I can't get @Home, because Cox has slipped their delivery dates for about fourteen months so far.
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I agree. I've never had anything remotely resembling a satisfying experience dealing with US Worst. When I lived in Central Phoenix, they managed to screw up the billing on my ISDN line for five months in a row, and at least five days out of each month was "down time" for the ISDN line.
Now, I'm online with SpeedChoice, but using a commercial account so that I can use their bidirectional wireless link (not yet available for residential installations.) I get 10MBit downstream, 32kbit CIR on the uplink, burstable to 256kbit on the uplink. This translates roughly to a saturated link at between 5 and 7MBit due to the nature of the loop.
But it doesn't require another phone line, and it doesn't require stepping into that pit of Hell known as US West.
I can't get DSL (MegaBit, or MegaWait, or whatever you want to call it) from US West in this area - apparently, Scottsdale isn't very high on their list for updating equipment, despite the upcoming need for new lines in the Los Arcos area. I can't get @Home, because Cox has slipped their delivery dates for about fourteen months so far.
I can get SpeedChoice. So I did. I like it.
If this is an April Fool's "joke," then all I can say is that I'm not finding it amusing in the slightest.
"Crying Wolf" would be an appropriate term for it.
If it's "for real," then I hope that all of the sites involved file countersuits.