Has anyone had any experience with Satellite two way DSL? I can't get DSL
through Verizon and our ATT Broadband doesn't have any plans to add a cable
modem. Dish Network has two way for $60 a month and $550 initial hardware.
They are talking of 550 kbs for download and 110 kbs for upload speeds.
Thanks,
Charlie Milhans
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From: "Stephen C. Daukas"
This may or may not be helpful, but I'll bring it up anyway...
You have three options, as I see it:
1. Live outside of Worcester 2. Live in a different part of Worcester 3. Get your own line
I mention 1 & 2 because two friends recently moved from Worcester to surrounding towns and one of the unsolicited comments was regarding better connectivity... The other story is that two other friends have very different stories to tell based on where they live in Worcester - one friend lives near UMass, the other over near Quinsig. Admittedly, this is anecdotal, but what the hell. It also sounds like you may be tied to WPI, so...
The third option, in light of the poor track record of DSL, is to see what you can do with a local provider. If your industrious enough, get a bunch of people to chip in for your own line at the level you are comfortable with (speed versus money). I know of one group that did this with only 3 people. They split the cost three ways and, in two of the three's cases, they got some reimbursement form their employer (then re-worked the per person cost)... Brought the individual cost to the same level as a typical business account, but they had their own pipe.
Just my two bits worth.
Steve
PS. I read the posting of the story about multiple installs with a smile as this was my experience in Shrewsbury a while back. To make a long story short, I ended up with cable service from the town. A little rough in the beginning (as they were starting out), but it has been nothing but smooth sailing from then on.
I had DSL, switched to Cable, then back to DSL, then back to Cable. During my hiatus from the town cable, the town fired their last provider and brought on a new sub... A much better story than DSL at this point in time, if only because the DSL market is so unstable right now.
Just goes to show that nothing is perfect.
At 07:43 PM 8/30/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Hi all - I'm new to the area.. living near the WPI campus. Is anyone here happy with their DSL service?
Right now I've got DSL service from Earthlink. Man, they suck. The thing goes out for a week at a time & all they do is ask me to power cycle my modem & then say its a Verizon problem & I must wait for Verizon to fix it.
This time I'm getting 400ms pings & terrible bandwidth (50kbps... and not as smooth as a modem)
Anyone know if going with a different DSL provider would improve things?
I'm not sure who Earthlink uses locally, but they always say its a Verizon problem.
Speakeasy uses Covad. Perhaps I should switch?
Thank you - Matt _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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