Review by bugmenot2 
UPDATED: 200 days ago
member for 5.1 years, 4 visits, last login: 200 days ago
 Winters,Yolo,CA
 $39 per month
 about 7 days
 AT&T
 "Very consistant - on two brief outages in last 10 months"
 "A tad pricey, and a bit slow up."
 "Best option for the money in my location."
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ATT 6 down / 768k up DSL plan. Speeds are consistently 5-6Mb down, and 600-768k up.
They try to make you use a crappy 2wire modem/router combination and charge you for per-computer connections. You can just ignore that crap and use your own DSL modem + router. It just good ol' PPoE DSL.
DSL is very smooth and solid. Connection is not shared like a cable modem connection and stays very consistent. Good for skype or other voip usage. Only 6 down, but good enough for hulu, and a house hold of heavy internet users.
I'm paying $40/month for DSL only - no phone line. A bit pricey, but not many choices where I am.
Customer service are only desk clerks reading from a script in front of them. They have NO technical knowledge. ATT does not have technical people available to talk to over the phone, so might call your family tech support person first vs. calling ATT.
ATT service person I talked to once had no idea what a 'gateway' was, when I mentioned the DSL modem was not picking up a gateway. That word is not on the script in front of him, so he was clueless.
Techie stuff:
bittorrent is not filtered
ports are not blocked if you are interested in running your own Linux server stuff. 22, 80, 443, 995, 587/465, etc all open and ok.
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