[ale] atnex outage

[Geoffrey Myers]

James Sumners wrote:
>>From [1]: "Fast Access Business DSL 6.0: $109.95/month"
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> Sure, AT&T offers it to you for ~$39/month if you sign a 12 month
> contract, but after those 12 months it goes up to $110/month. At least
> AtNex is upfront about the price. And they don't raise the price on
> you later. I have been paying the same price for my residential 3Mb/s
> service for at least 5 years. Who knows what AT&T would randomly
> decide to charge.

I've got 12 with Uverse and the portion of my bill is $45.

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> [1] -- http://smallbusiness.bellsouth.com/internet_pop_pricing_terms.html
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> On Thursday, January 13, 2011, Richard Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org> wrote:
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>> $89.00 a month for 6MB down?  How much were you paying for your AT&T DSL?  Our's is a promo rate for a year (right now) but we're getting AT&T 6MB for $19.99 (or something about that).  The full-blown rate is $40 something if memory serves.  How much up do you get?  512K?
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>> Rich in Lilburn
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com <Paul%20Cartwright%20%3cale at pcartwright.com%3e>>
>> Reply-to: ale at pcartwright.com, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org <Atlanta%20Linux%20Enthusiasts%20%3cale at ale.org%3e>>
>> Subject: [ale] atnex outage
>> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:05:13 -0500
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>> arg... I had a small DSL outage today. It only lasted an hour, but it
>> was RIGHT smack dab in the middle of a conference call training session
>> over something similar to WebEx...
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>> Since I am starting to work from home now, I figured it is time to
>> upgrade to business class, so I called atnex & upgraded to 6MB business,
>> starting next week. She said the 3Mb was $79 and the 6Mb was only $89
>> per month ! that doesn't seem like much of a difference so I opted for
>> 6Mb. I guess I can write it off:)
>> in case anyone else noticed, it was about 1pm til almost 2pm. I called
>> support & left a message ( couldn't even GET to a tech) and she actually
>> called me back at 2pm!!
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>> I had a fleeting thought to go back to AT&T DSL, then slapped my self!
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Until later, Geoffrey

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