hi jason,
i'm currently an unsatisified RR customer. i've also been considering ADSL
as an alternative. what i recommend though is to wait until at least RR
goes public, RR users are still early birders i think; once RR goes public
SWBell and people affiliated with ADSL will really be forced to lower their
rates to compete, perhaps even raise quality. i'm sort of sitting back and
waiting on the economics of it to give me an answer.
Jason Hemmenway wrote:
> I know that ADSL is available to something like 40% of Austin at the
> present time, and the service level depends on your isp, since it is not a
> shared bandwidth topology like cable modems. Make sure your ISP has the
> pipe to the internet to back up the 386Kbps to 6MBps speeds that ADSL
> supports.
>
> OuterNet, the company I work for, will begin to offer ADSL services in the
> next month or so (although primarily for business customers).
>
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> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Tom K wrote:
>
> > > Call their technical support 532 2300 IIRC.
> > >
> > > They're responsible for at least a minimal level of service, and they've
> > > had all kinds of problem lately. Yet, they _still_ need to know that you
> > > notice it. They had a problem with my brother's lines that took them like
> > > 4 days to resolve -- he also got reimbursed for the downtime (a minimum
> > > concession if you ask me).
> >
> > All this cablemodem talk reminds me of when I got one in Lawrence, KS 2 or 3
> > years ago now. Horrible problems for at least a year, and then shoddy to
> > barely-acceptible service from there on out. It seems like some of the
> > installed Cablemodems in California are really nice, but friends of mine
> > around the country have experienced a lot of trouble with cablemodems.
> > Hopefully Time Warner will get it together here.
> >
> > And now to my question - does anyone on this list have ADSL, or know someone
> > who does? I've called around, and it's availible a couple places I am
> > considering moving, but I'd really like to know how it performs. I'd just as
> > soon not pay their hardware costs and sign a year contract to get my install
> > fee waved only to find out that the service is horrible. Right now though,
> > it seems like taking a chance on that might be better than dealing with a
> > cablemodem.
> >
> > Tom
> >
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