I live in San Jose around Highway 87/Capitol Expressway. I have been trying for 3 months to get DSL installed. Concentric sucks the weenie as those guys kept giving me the runaround (uh - are you sure this is your address its not on my 1985 era map....do you get mail there???) COVAD, NORTHPOINT both act like they are new monopolies (aka PacBell/ATT)
I have now picked a nice and small ISP (to remain nameless as I want them to remain small....;) ), with a decent connection and peering in PAIX, they have been great at kicking some butt, always keeping me up to date, not charging me a cent, even though COVAD sub contractor dropped off the flowpoint router already. Now PacBell says they no longer have working connection on their lightspan fibre, so they now have to run copper straight to my house (and this is in a new development!)
DSL is almost as bad as when I got ISDN installed, that took 7 months, and even then I had line problems for the next 3 months.
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I live in San Jose around Highway 87/Capitol Expressway. I have been trying for 3 months to get DSL installed. Concentric sucks the weenie as those guys kept giving me the runaround (uh - are you sure this is your address its not on my 1985 era map....do you get mail there???) COVAD, NORTHPOINT both act like they are new monopolies (aka PacBell/ATT)
I have now picked a nice and small ISP (to remain nameless as I want them to remain small....;) ), with a decent connection and peering in PAIX, they have been great at kicking some butt, always keeping me up to date, not charging me a cent, even though COVAD sub contractor dropped off the flowpoint router already. Now PacBell says they no longer have working connection on their lightspan fibre, so they now have to run copper straight to my house (and this is in a new development!)
DSL is almost as bad as when I got ISDN installed, that took 7 months, and even then I had line problems for the next 3 months.
Jim