[ale] OT: DSL with Telocity

[James Kinney]

OK. I understand the shielding part. But, I have both Bellsouth ADSL and
Earthlink SDSL. Both are aboveground wires. Bellsouth ADSL is much more
consistent. Covad runs the hardware for Earthlink. The tech that did my
instal mentioned that they are still having connectivity problems and the
srvice wold be up and down. But he also said it was mostly at night. Which
is when most geeks are banging at home. Bummer. I'm not real pleased with
the quality of service from Earthlink, but I needed the static IP's which
Bellsouth just won't deliver.

JimK
Local Net Solutions

On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Kevin J. Schmidt wrote:

> 
> I hope your phone lines are buried. If you have phone lines above the
> ground, then your ADSL could totally suck. I ordered MindLink ADSL and had
> to get rid of it and get Road Runner. The ADSL was constantly up and down,
> and not to mention slow! I know of a few other MindLink ADSL customers who
> are seeing the exact same problems, and they all have above ground phone
> lines. I think part of the problem is due to the fact that phone lines
> aren't shielded as well as cable lines. Your phone line is subject to
> environmental interference.
> 
> The Road Runner stuff works great! I highly recommend it.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 08:50:29AM -0400, Jim wrote:
> > I would love to have signed up with Telocity. But they kept insisting
> > DSL wasn't available from my phone line. Mindspring said it was
> > available and got me hooked up right away. 
> > 
> > Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Glenn C. Lasher Jr. wrote:
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > I have heard a lot of good things about Telocity.  I ordered it 117 days
> > > > ago and still haven't been able to connect.  I am canclling on Friday if
> > > > it isn't up, and ordering Road Runner instead.  It's too bad, really,
> > > > because of the linux-friendly nature of Telocity, and the static IP, but I
> > > > had to draw the line when I found that their home wiring department had
> > > > been sitting on my case for 3 weeks.
> > > 
> > > I don't know anything about Telocity in the Atl area but I must ask this
> > > to save some confusion...
> > > 
> > > Glenn,
> > > 
> > > Aren't you the one who moved to NY? If so...your experiences there may be
> > > irrelevant. Not a flame...I just hate to see one bad apple spoil the whole
> > > bunch. I've heard nothing but good things about Telocity. Maybe it's a
> > > regional problem.
> > > 
> > > If I'm wrong about Glenn's locale, disregard.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Jonathan Rickman
> > > X Corps Security
> > > http://www.xcorps.net
> > > 
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