[ale] DSL - winfire says yes, bellsouth says no

[Douglas Knudsen]

I just moved to the Alpharetta area in June and have been spending large
amounts of time trying to figure this stuff out.  It seems different
companies, Covad, NorthPoint, etc.. have different databases of CO info.
One says ~13000 feet from the CO the other says ~15,000 feet for me.

Hellsouth says no way to DSL for me and unless you have a buddy that is a
Bellsouth technician, you will not know why they can't give you DSL, this
after many hours on the phone.

What I did do, I found a company(dsli.com) that said, 'yes, we can give you
DSL at 1.5 MB downhill speeds...'(I should sue them now!).  I said cool,
sign me up.  Two months go by and they finally tell me I have fiber in my
path to the CO.  Only thing I can get is IDSL at 144kbps.  Assuming they
were right, I now know why.  In short, it is a crapshoot at best, in my
experience.

Is all this crap causing lost business?  Check out cnet, technet, etc... you
will find recent articles on DSL companies losing tons of money.


Cheers!

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Douglas Knudsen
Alltel Information Services
Internal Support and Development

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Hey! These views are mine!!!


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Dan
To: ale at ale.org
Newcombe
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 5:07 PM
To: ALE
Subject: [ale] DSL - winfire says yes, bellsouth says no


Okay...for all of you out there with DSL, I'm confused.

I go to dslreports.com, put in my info, it says I'm 78000 feet from the
CO - way too far for anything.

I go to bellsouth.com's dsl page, punch my phone number in and it says
there is no service for me.

I go to freedsl/winfire.com, put my number in and it says Congrats.

So, how can these people do it?  My office mate had the same situation
where he was told no,no,no, and is now paying for (and getting) 384k.

So how can they get me DSL when bellsouth, who has the lines, can not?

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