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

[James Sumners]

Yes. Switching to AtNex will solve your problem. The only downside is
having to retain an AT&T telephone line.

/me pines for dry loop from AtNex

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Tue August 3 2010, Asher Vilensky wrote:
>> 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?
>
> you can probably get Atlantic Nexus 6MB service.. excellent tech support.. I
> only have 3MB service + static IP..
>
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