[ale] Comcast HSI was Re: 10M service

[Ben Coleman]

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Bob Toxen wrote:
> As soon as I finish a client project I will be switching to BellSouth
> high-speed fiber.  (I do dread the quality when AT&T completes the rape of,
> I mean, merger with BellSouth, the best of the Baby Bells.)

Is that supposed to be the 6M service?  You might want to look at Atlantic
Nexus (http://www.atlanticnexus.com), a company I tried because I saw it
mentioned on this list a few months ago.  They've got 1.5M DSL for
$32.99/month, 3.5M DSL for $42.99/month, and 6M DSL coming up.  I just
switched over to them last Saturday, and it was pretty painless.  Friday night
I went to sleep with Earthlink DSL running.  Saturday morning I woke up,
noticed that DSL was down, swapped in the AtNex-supplied DSL modem (I probably
could have left in the old modem from Earthlink, but it's one of the Alcatel
Speedmodems, and can be pretty flaky if you get a transformer or monitor too
close to it), and changed the authentication in the router to the AtNex
username/password, and it was up and running.

The company has something of the feel of early Mindspring.  The salespeople
are pretty knowledgeable.  The fellow I talked to quickly realized that I
wasn't the ordinary MS-using drone and was able to answer my questions.

Though the web site seems to indicate that if you don't have XP, you'll need
to buy a router, they're quite comfortable with you using your own router (as
I did).  The XP reference is basically to keep MS drones from expecting to get
only the modem, hook it up to a Win9x box, and expect it to work.

Static IP is $5/month extra with the 1.5M service, and included with the 3.5M
service.  A reverse IP entry basically takes just asking for it.

Ben
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