[ale] OT: DSL with Telocity

[Les Neste]

With apologies to those trapped in DSL hell, I have to report an excellent
DSL experience with Telocity.  My situation may well be close to a best
case (living in a heavily-wired Post Apartments in Atlanta, when the leaves
fall off the trees I can almost see the CO down the street).  I placed my
order with Telocity on Oct 11, received my installation kit on Oct 25,
finally got around to installing it Oct 26 and was up and running at
1.5Mbps in about half an hour.  Life is sweet.

At 06:46 AM 10/17/2000 -0400, Glenn C. Lasher Jr. wrote:
>
>Just thought I would update everyone on my case.  Again, I would point out
>that my only fault with Telocity is that they dropped the ball for a
>couple of weeks.  Otherwise, this has been mostly Verizon at work here....
>
>OTOH, I got hooked up with some Verizon Technicians who, as everybody who
>has worked with telcos knows, are the only ones who really know what's
>going on.  They poked around and found that I didn't get put into about
>half of the systems I was supposed to be in, and that according to the
>computer, I'm not even wired for DSL (I'm synced to something, but the
>computer doesn't show it).  They are ordering a cancellation and
>reinstallation, and estimating 11 days to completion.
>
>
>On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>
>> Just to add a data point, my Telocity DSL almost never goes down and can
>> pull down a sustained 1300Kb/s over above-ground and scraggly-looking phone
>> lines.  I would think that above-ground wires would cause performance
>> problems, but so far, that really hasn't been the case.
>> 
>> - Jeff
>> 
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Kevin J. Schmidt [mailto:kschmidt at netrail.net]
>> > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 7:59 PM
>> > To: Jim
>> > Cc: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> > Subject: Re: [ale] OT: DSL with Telocity
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 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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