[ale] recommended personal DSL provider for Alpharetta ?

[James Sumners]

For decent VoIP service you really have to manage your bandwidth well.
That means implementing some sort of QoS rules. I haven't quite got my
rules optimized yet, but they are working well enough for now. I
intend to implement more stringent rules during peak usage hours than
off-peak. As it is now, my phone service can be a bit choppy. I don't
use the phone that much, though, so it doesn't bother me too badly. I
would definitely like to have more than 32KB/s upload bandwidth to
work with, though.

On 9/24/06, Tom Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
> As usual, YMMV, and probably will. I'm not in Georgia, so some
> influences are different. However, my daughter had lousy cell service
> at her condo, so got VOIP with the cable vision/internet to suppliment
> her cell phone.  To put it mildly, her VOIP service sucked royally, and
> the cable for the first year was pretty flakey.
>
> <sigh> None of the local monopolies really supplies the kind of service
> that they could/can if they so chose. And the way regulatory oversight
> is going, I don't see much that the customer can do about it except
> bitch in the dark. Or be lucky and not need customer service.
>
> YMMV of course.


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