 Review by Eric 
UPDATED: 356 days ago
member for 9.1 years, 3669 visits, last login: 24 days ago
 Litchfield,Litchfield,CT
 $33 per month
 about 2 days
 "Wicked fast connection."
 "Strange fear of paranoia thta they will be capping my speeds soon. This is too good to be true!"
 "The ultimate in speed and reliability. No one is this fast. Period."
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I ordered in August and the installer came the same week. It took less than 5 minutes to install because I had a Mac. The tech exclaimed that (this was the easiest install ever". After he left I moved the modem to the basement to the first split in the cable line and increased the speed to about 6000/900. Why would anyone want DSL with OOL in town?
UPDATE:
Still fast and reliable after almost a year. I cancelled my regular cable connection but kept OOL. That upped the price to about $49 a month. No big deal. I saved at least the difference when I switched to DirecTV.
ANOTHER UPDATE:
SNET DSL just got cheap for me, about 27 beans. Can't pass that up so I will be switching in the very near future.
YET ANOTHER UPDATE (4/19/2007):
I moved to another town just as ATT DSL upped their rates (a promotional rate expired). I also needed to switch back to cable because DirecTV also upped their rates, making digital cable and HDTV cheaper than DTV. So a phone call on a Friday led to an installer coming over on Tuesday. Digital cable, VoIP, and OOL installation took minutes. Since I switched back to cable from satellite TV, installation was free, and I will be getting a discount for the next year on my monthly bill as well. The friendly and very knowledgeable installer hooked up a Motorola SBV5120 SURFboard cable modem with VoIP.
Speed tests have shown that the connection with OOL via my Apple Airport Extreme 802.11n router is extremely fast. 10522 Kb/s down, and 1674 Kb/s up.
I can't complain so far. I doubt that I will in the near future. I haven't used the VoIP yet. The whole package (digital cable, OOL, and VoIP) only cost 3 dollars more than if I only got cable and OOL.
UPDATE 11/17/08
Still fast, still awesome. If you live in an area serviced by Cablevision/Optimum and don't have OOL, you are a moron. OOL is the best. Period. Had to call a couple of times for TV, but never for OOL.
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