[wplug] DSL?

[Ed Stewart]

Hi, I use Ubuntu 6.10 here and ain't had a broken window in years, I 
also have had Verizon dsl for about there years, speed is good and no 
problems here either. I ditched micro$oft 7 years ago. Ed

Cameron McBride wrote:
> Woah, active topic.
>
> I run debian, and have had NO windows boxen in this house (all dual
> boot partitions were detroyed before I moved here about 4 years ago).
> I don't really want to say Verizon rocks - but I had their DSL and it
> was rock solid for a good long while.  I had some continual ssh
> connections that would persist for days.  Their support lines suck,
> but now and then you get someone knowledgable (like I did to get
> "signed up", I just called and they did over the phone and I was good
> to go in around 10 minutes).
>
> Now, I've gotten rid of DSL as FiOS is available.  You don't have a
> whole lot of vendor choice here, but a 15Mbs / 2Mbs plan was like
> $45/month (with $15 off the first three months).  I get sustained
> 2MBps (capital B!) from pair.com when using their debian apt repo.
> They were offering the 5Mbs / 2Mbs for around $30 - but it seems to be
> $39.99 at their website now.
>
> Like mentioned earlier in this thread, FiOS sufferes a little more
> latency with connections (probably like a cable connection) but the
> raw download speed is pretty freaking cool.  It's amazing to see which
> sites are bandwidth limited on their end.  :)
>
> Oh, and they gave me a decent wireless router (rather than the half
> functional POS that came with the DSL service).  I don't think the TV
> service is available yet, but it doesn't matter to me - I don't watch
> network TV (not live, anyhow).
>
> Cameron
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Ed Stewart
Reynoldsville, PA.
15851
Using DSL connection.