[geeks] Why I hate Verizon Online

[Phil Stracchino]

Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:14:34PM -0800, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>> Out here (Seattle area) we can split it up; I get my DSL line from Qwest,
>> but my ISP services from Blarg (now known as "Avvanta").  Works great.  
> 
> Amazingly enough, I"ve gotten *better* service from SBC since they Borged
> AT&T [0].
> 
> I just can't beat $17.95/month for 3/512 DSL.  I've had maybe two outages
> in the past six to nine months that I can remember, and none of them
> lasting more than thirty minutes.

I can't even *get* 3/512 from Verizon, unless they roll out FIOS here.

They basically have three offerings:  1.5/768, 1.5/384, 768/128.  At our
current CO distance, we're capped at 1.5/384.


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