[ale] OT: ISP (sick of AT&T, yes, me too)

George Carless kafka at antichri.st
Tue Aug 3 14:15:32 EDT 2010


Asher Vilensky (ashervilensky at gmail.com) wrote the following on Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 01:19:34PM -0400:
> Hi all,
> 
> I know that this was discussed plenty of times in the past, but I couldn't
> find it in the archive.  Anyway, while AT&T DSL is the cheapest, they keep
> pulling the plug on me.  They change the modem password (on their side)
> without prior notification to the customer.  They say they're doing it for
> security reasons.  You can be running happy every day, but if you
> disconnect-reconnect with your modem when they changed the password, you're
> toast (they have a web interface to address that, but it didn't work for
> me).  Anyway, I wish to fire them.  Here are my circumstances:
> - I don't have cable in the house nor I intend to order one.
> - I live within the Atlanta city limits (intown).
> - I don't need huge bandwidth.  The  3 MBPS download from the DSL did it ok
> (until people in the house started streaming Netflix movies recently).  So
> anything <10 MBPS would suffice.
> 
> What are my options?

CLEAR?  Seems to work pretty well, depending on location.


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