[cfgeeks] Welcome to the new hell (aka AT&T)

[Dave Hudson]

It looks like COVAD is available in my area with 8mb/1mb for $149 a month.
I'm paying about $79 a month for Bellsouth DSL and with the hassle i'm
thinking it might be worth the extra cash to ensure up-time.

Anyone familiar with COVAD? 

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From: Kevin Korb [mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net] 
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 10:53 PM
To: Central Florida Geeks
Subject: Re: [cfgeeks] Welcome to the new hell (aka AT&T)

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I have a static IP with RoadRunner.  Costs a bit extra though.  Call them
and ask for the "Virtual Office" package.  It also gets you commercial level
tech support where they don't care if you tell them you are running Linux
(or in my case OpenBSD).

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On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Graham Christensen wrote:

> Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:27:09 -0400
> From: Graham Christensen <graham.christensen at iamgraham.net>
> To: Central Florida Geeks <cfgeeks at mail.cfgeeks.org>
> Subject: Re: [cfgeeks] Welcome to the new hell (aka AT&T)
> 
> Dave Hudson wrote:
>>  Ok, after all my ranting about DSL Routers, I think it is a 
>> combination of  my DSL MODEM and Bellsouth (now the crappy AT&T).
>>
>>  My internet service has completely crapped out again.  I am 
>> connected with  a laptop directly to the DSL modem and getting
nothing....
>>
>>  I just tried to call the tech support number and guess what message i
get
>>  "we're sorry - all circuits are busy" WTF?!   Is it all the iPhone
>>  pinheads tying up the line?
>>
>>  I'm so over my internet problems... i think i am going to go to 
>> Comcast in  the morning and get cable and try that.... any other 
>> suggestions out  there?  I know there is SpeakEasy, but they are 
>> using the Bellsouth/AT&T  backbone, so i don't know if it will be anymore
reliable......
>>
>>  (btw - i'm using my blackjack to connect to the internet and send 
>> this
>>  message)
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> I've been having the same problems (tonight I've been having terrible 
> luck as well), but its not completely out - it just drops my entire 
> connection every
> 5 minutes or so. I looked into SpeakEasy, and decided that even if it 
> didn't use the Bellsouth backbone it wouldn't be worth the price. I've 
> considered switching to RoadRunner, but only because I didn't think 
> Comcast was in the area. Regardless, I need a static IP address which 
> RoadRunner will *not* provide.
>
> Let me know what you do, I'd be interested in how you solve your problems.
>
> Graham
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