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["Lyman Green" <lymang AT gmail.com>]

FWIW, I had Bellsouth DSL while in Chatham County, and I had rock solid 3Mbs service.  I didn't keep the service in Morrisville due to BellSouth's horrible pricing scheme and unpleasant billing practices, but the technical side of the service worked fine.  I have not yet seen a DSL service that ends up being cheaper than Cable Modem.  Does Verizon DSL have a similar billing policy as BellSouth's that says you cannot have a DSL line without an associated phone line?  The cheapest phone line Bellsouth would sell me was still 23 or 24 dollars a month and when you threw that on top of the DSL price it was more by far than TimeWarner's cable service.  AND TWC is faster.

 

Caveat: I don't use a landline and haven't for some years now.  I only got one from BS because of that asinine billing policy.  And they tried to get me to keep the service in the end by offering me a month or two's free service.  I laughed.

 

 

 

Lyman

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: DonBartholf AT aol.com

To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 8:12 PM

Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Verizon DSL

As a general aside, I thought it was best to get your DSL from the folks who own the switches and wires feeding your home. BellSouth rules in my area and has always provided the best speeds. Others I tried  apparently bought some huge service package from BellSouth and resold a smaller package to me. These other providers either didn't buy or weren't offered the top speeds.

 

Don B

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