 Review by NetFixer 
UPDATED: 1.9 years ago
member for 4 years, 2275 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Murfreesboro,Rutherford,TN
 $65 per month (12 month contract)
 about 8 days
 BellSouth
CLEC party: Covad
 "Dependable and fast. Efficient routing with low lag times."
 "I live too far from the CO to get 3000/768 service"
 "Business class static IP for residential static IP price"
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I had previously been using BellSouth residential static IP service, but I kept having sync problems and the download speed I got of ~900kbs and upload speed of ~180kbs seemed slow for only being 10k ft from the CO. The Covad TeleSoho service has been reliable (no sync problems) and the speed is consistently in the 1250 kbs download and 320 kbs upload range. I have been using this service for 8 months, and I have only had one brief outage which I found out was a 'scheduled maintenance' outage to upgrade a router. That is one kudo I will have to give to BellSouth, they always published scheduled maintenance warnings on their web site.
07/24/05 update:
Three weeks ago BellSouth "unintentionally" disconnected my Covad DSL shared line service. After two weeks of inaction on their part to restore the service I had both of my BellSouth POTS lines disconnected and switched to VOIP with Vonage using a Comcast HSI connection (both of those providers are reviewed elsewhere).
For my primary internet connection I now have a Covad dedicated loop (dry pair) DSL service which is working very well. The noise margins in the dedicated loop are so much better than the old shared line service, that I will probably try to upgrade to the 3.0/768 service after I have tested it a bit more.
08/03/06 update:
I recently tried to upgrade to 3000/768, but it didn't work, I am to far from the CO to get reliable sync (and poor copper pairs didn't help). I did however, re-sign for another year, and got a $10.00 per month price decrease as well as a free month. I also was able to get a PTR record setup to make running an email server much easier. I probably could have done this a year ago, but I was not aware that Covad would do this for a single IP account.
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