RE: [PLUG] @home (and Covad)

["Adam Van Antwerp" <avanantwerp@princetelecom.com>]

I previously  had Flashcom/Covad DSL which was Rock solid until Flashcom
went under........(seems to be a trend)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
>[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Abrahamson
>Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:53 AM
>To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>Subject: Re: [PLUG] @home (and Covad)
>
>
>On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 03:04:37PM -0800, Adam Schaible wrote:
>> Comcast @Home, when I had it, was nominally discounted
>> $10 a month to a fee of $30 when I subscribed to cable
>> TV from them. However, throw in a $7 monthly modem
>> rental, another $30 for TV service, and any where from
>> $5 - $10 in taxes and fees, and the result was a
>> roughly $70 per month bill. Not *too* bad, but the
>> customer service was absolutely horrendous.
>>
>> I'm now gearing up to pay $60 a month for Covad DSL,
>> just last month they started running asymmetric out of
>> my local CO which is about 4000 ft. away from my
>> apartment. I'm wondering how many PLUGgers out there
>> have any Covad horror stories to discourage me from
>> doing this... ?
>
>Any big enough company will have horror stories. You're comparing how
>many, not if.
>
>I've had dcanet/covad for over a year and it's been extremely
>reliable. Can't say how much is dca and how much is covad, although
>dca is the first isp I've used that tells me about hardware and
>service things proactively, which is cool. And since I run services
>that send a few packets every few minutes, I notice those
>middle-of-the-night outages. Verizon had many.
>
>I pay $80 for the 1.5/384 service, which lets me ssh X-forward back to
>work at tolerable speed, so I can read and send mail on my home
>machine at work quite nicely. (I have to ssh over port 80, of course:
>firewalls.)
>
>Before, I used the base level service. Did you know that X updates
>screens from left to right, not top to bottom? And some toolkits do a
>lot of duplicate drawing? You learn cool things on slow connections.
>
>--
> Jeff
>
> Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
>
>
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