Review by pcwiz 
member for 11.8 years, 725 visits, last login: 2.9 years ago
lodged 11.8 years ago
 Haledon,Passaic,NJ
 $69 per month- (24 month contract)
 "Great price, Fast Connection, pretty quick turnaround from placing order to up and running." "Bell Atlantic late in installing the line" "Highly recommend!"
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This a glowing review of fast.net
I am an IT Professional employed as a Senior Developer/DBA for a media
company.
When searching for DSL for my new house I was nervous because of all the
horrible reviews out there for most companies. Unfortunately some of the
better companies did not service my area or simply don't offer residential
ADSL plans. I narrowed my search down to 2 companies. One had a great deal
of glowing reviews but was a bit pricey and the other was a new company with
only 2 reviews but a much better price. I decided to take a chance and go
with the new company FAST.NET.
I ordered their 768/384 ADSL for $69/month. I signed up for a 2 year
commitment and received free installation and free router.
A couple of weeks after I ordered the service I noticed they changed their
plan and for the $69/month they now offer up to 1.5MBs/600KBs. I called the
800 number and right away someone answered the phone, looked up the status
of my order and discussed the possibility of switching to the new plan.
Given that I am approximately 12,000 feet from the CO and the new plan does
not guarantee speed (based on line condition and distance) we agreed I
should stay with the 768/384.
Installation was pretty fast for DSL (about 4 weeks) - Bell Atlantic was
scheduled to come to my house on 3/22/2000 and Covad was coming on 3/23/2000
to finish. Unfortunately for me Bell Atlantic never showed up on 3/22/2000
so Covad had to put in a trouble ticket and reschedule after Bell finished
their job.
Friday 3/24/2000 8:00PM as I left to go out to dinner I noticed a Bell
Atlantic truck in front of my house and figured that they were doing an
emergency repair. Actually they were finishing my DSL install.
Covad came back yesterday on 3/30/2000 and installed the line and did the
inside wiring. (I have done wiring and could do it myself, but snaking
wires through a wall is tough to do with a 2 year old and a 2 month old
staring and asking questions so I figured it was worth the $100/hr for them
to run the Ethernet from the outside box to my computer).
This is fast!
When downloading I see speeds of 80Kb/s and higher (remember my 56K modem
did about 5Kb/s). Upstream I am seeing about 40KB/s.
I have not tried technical support because I haven't needed them yet, but
someone has always answered my call when I dialed the main line.
If you are reading the review and have questions you can email me and I will
be happy to reply.
Dan Greenberg
Sr. Developer/DBA
Katz Media Group
pcwiz@fast.net
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