[ale] ISPs for the Roswell area

[msmith at mikeandmel.com]

> On 3/28/06, msmith at mikeandmel.com <msmith at mikeandmel.com> wrote:
>> > Good morning,
>> >
>> >    I hope this email gets through since I'm having trouble with
>> > Charter yet again. Needless to say, I'm very interested in switching
>> > ISPs. It's been a while since I looked. Any recommendations?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Jeff
>>
>>
>> I feel your pain.  I'm in Roswell also(off of Warsaw road).  Every day
>> for
>> the last week and a half I have gotten a call around lunchtime from
>> Charter telling me that there was going to be an outage but it would be
>> back up by 6pm.  It has been up by 6pm but my wife is mad because we use
>> VOIP and she has to revert to carrying her cell phone around the house.
>> I
>> have tried DSL and I could never get close to 1mbit due to issues with
>> my
>> phone lines.  I am stuck.  I hope you have better luck with DSL if you
>> swap over.  I would suggest that you do a short parallel test before
>> doing
>> the jump.  I'm glad I did and didn't have to pay the installation fee to
>> charter again.
>>
>> Mike
>
> Also in Roswell... I'm taking these "outages with notice" as a sign
> that Charter has finally a/ figured out what has been causing all the
> down time in this area in the past 22 months and b/ commited to fixing
> it. I'm hoping naively against hope that this means things will
> improve.
>
> -A
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I've actually been pretty happy for the last year or so with Charter. 
It's just been the last month that I've had problems.