I can tell you this much since I work for Verizon, the biggest problem with their DSL is the lack of communication within the company. With all the regulations, lack of planning on Verizon's part to make sure regulations didn't get in the way and plain stupidity on managements part, it's made for a complete cluster-fuck since the merger between GTE and BA. Before that there weren't many problems that couldn't be fixed, the main deterrent was the gimp on the other end of the phone, now the biggest deterrent (besides the gimp and PPPOE) is the fact that there was so little planning done to make sure everything was going to be ok after the merger. They're just now starting to straighten things out so, if you have Verizon DSL there is some light at the end of the tunnel but don't put any money on everything being fine and dandy, this is Verizon we're speaking about. Something is bound to go wrong somewhere. Good Luck.
I'm with you on the Verizon having problems. I see it everyday when I go to work. They're such a bloody huge company, one hand usually doesn't know what the other is doing and nothing is ever planned ahead of time. Now that they're finally starting to incorporate the two different sides of the company (GTE and BA) things are really getting freaky-deaky. When it comes to DSL (atleast Verizon DSL), if you don't have any problems getting it up initially, you're USUALLY good to go(barring slow-throughput, high latency and so forth), if you have problems before you're up and running, hang it up and move along.
I actually work for the DSL side of Verizon and I've run across a lot of our former customers selling the modems on Ebay. Believe it or not there seems to be a market for them there.
Word to the big bird.
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I can tell you this much since I work for Verizon, the biggest problem with their DSL is the lack of communication within the company. With all the regulations, lack of planning on Verizon's part to make sure regulations didn't get in the way and plain stupidity on managements part, it's made for a complete cluster-fuck since the merger between GTE and BA. Before that there weren't many problems that couldn't be fixed, the main deterrent was the gimp on the other end of the phone, now the biggest deterrent (besides the gimp and PPPOE) is the fact that there was so little planning done to make sure everything was going to be ok after the merger. They're just now starting to straighten things out so, if you have Verizon DSL there is some light at the end of the tunnel but don't put any money on everything being fine and dandy, this is Verizon we're speaking about. Something is bound to go wrong somewhere. Good Luck.
Word to the big bird.
I'm with you on the Verizon having problems. I see it everyday when I go to work. They're such a bloody huge company, one hand usually doesn't know what the other is doing and nothing is ever planned ahead of time. Now that they're finally starting to incorporate the two different sides of the company (GTE and BA) things are really getting freaky-deaky. When it comes to DSL (atleast Verizon DSL), if you don't have any problems getting it up initially, you're USUALLY good to go(barring slow-throughput, high latency and so forth), if you have problems before you're up and running, hang it up and move along.
As always, word to the big bird.
I actually work for the DSL side of Verizon and I've run across a lot of our former customers selling the modems on Ebay. Believe it or not there seems to be a market for them there.
Word to the big bird.