I live in Houston where, in April, Southwestern Bell began offering ADSL service.
I called at the first of May to order the service and was told that my line qualified, but that there was such demand that it could not be installed for about a month.
A month later (last Saturday to be exact) the Bell guy shows up (after making an appointment two weeks before) and in the course of about an hour, installs the DSL connection, hands me an Ethernet card to install into my FreeBSD machine. I do, we plug it in, it works.
Actually when placing the order over the phone the operator asked me which OS was on the maching the ADSL would be installed for. I said FreeBSD. She was not familiar with it. I told her it was a free Unix, real similar to Linux. She said ok, that she'd mark it down as a Linux installation.
So SW Bell charged $200 for the line install (covering modem and ethernet card) and $40 a month for the 128Kbps upstream and 384Kbps-1.5Mbps downstream ADSL connection (since my apartment complex is literally next door to Bell, I max out at the full 1.5Mbps downstream - pretty cool eh?).
There were two or three ISP I could have chosen to do that end of the service, and I selected SWBell Internet services which offers two service options: $10 per month for one Dynamic IP (uses DHCP). $40 per month for 5 static IP's with a $100 setup charge, which is the cheapest I've seen this sort of service.
Well anyway, to summarize, I placed one phone call and a month later two guys came to my apartment for an hour and now I have 1.5Mbps of downstream bandwith.
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I live in Houston where, in April, Southwestern Bell began offering ADSL service.
I called at the first of May to order the service and was told that my line qualified, but that there was such demand that it could not be installed for about a month.
A month later (last Saturday to be exact) the Bell guy shows up (after making an appointment two weeks before) and in the course of about an hour, installs the DSL connection, hands me an Ethernet card to install into my FreeBSD machine. I do, we plug it in, it works.
Actually when placing the order over the phone the operator asked me which OS was on the maching the ADSL would be installed for. I said FreeBSD. She was not familiar with it. I told her it was a free Unix, real similar to Linux. She said ok, that she'd mark it down as a Linux installation.
So SW Bell charged $200 for the line install (covering modem and ethernet card) and $40 a month for the 128Kbps upstream and 384Kbps-1.5Mbps downstream ADSL connection (since my apartment complex is literally next door to Bell, I max out at the full 1.5Mbps downstream - pretty cool eh?).
There were two or three ISP I could have chosen to do that end of the service, and I selected SWBell Internet services which offers two service options:
$10 per month for one Dynamic IP (uses DHCP).
$40 per month for 5 static IP's with a $100 setup charge, which is the cheapest I've seen this sort of service.
Well anyway, to summarize, I placed one phone call and a month later two guys came to my apartment for an hour and now I have 1.5Mbps of downstream bandwith.
-Scott