My experience with DSL has been terrific due to having a really good ISP. My ISP is a small local shop that handles small businesses. They know how to talk to the telco (GTE) and this was *very* important when I had a high packet loss problem about a month after I got the service.
It turned out GTE had a fiber problem that effected the frame relay that interconnected my CO to my ISP. I had the experience of being in a conference call with GTE and my ISP as my ISP led the GTE guy through the diagnosis and got them to see it was their problem.
Besides that, the service is terrific. I've a symetric 384 kbs link and my ISP has no "server" restrictions or other nonesense.
Another thing to watch for is what the CIR or Certified Information Rate for your DSL line is. GTE gives me a CIR of only 32 Kbs(!) for my link. As I understand it, that's the minimum data rate. I usually get the full 384 Kbs to local sites, so this has not been a problem so far, but I wonder how things will go when my CO gets more fully subscribed.
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My experience with DSL has been terrific due to having a really good ISP. My ISP is a small local shop that handles small businesses. They know how to talk to the telco (GTE) and this was *very* important when I had a high packet loss problem about a month after I got the service.
It turned out GTE had a fiber problem that effected the frame relay that interconnected my CO to my ISP. I had the experience of being in a conference call with GTE and my ISP as my ISP led the GTE guy through the diagnosis and got them to see it was their problem.
Besides that, the service is terrific. I've a symetric 384 kbs link and my ISP has no "server" restrictions or other nonesense.
Another thing to watch for is what the CIR or Certified Information Rate for your DSL line is. GTE gives me a CIR of only 32 Kbs(!) for my link. As I understand it, that's the minimum data rate. I usually get the full 384 Kbs to local sites, so this has not been a problem so far, but I wonder how things will go when my CO gets more fully subscribed.
--ddm