 Review by KAD Imaging 
UPDATED: 273 days ago
member for 7.1 years, 1819 visits, last login: 29 days ago
 Hialeah,Miami-Dade,FL
 $42 per month (12 month contract)
 about 10 days
 BellSouth
 "Reliable Fast Service at exceptional distances"
 "Could have better pricing"
 "A solid ISP and a good competitor to Cable in South FL."
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UPDATE (2/7/09)
Still going strong. Nice solid 3mbps (2.7 actual) service. No 6meg tier here yet but truly the 3meg service is more than enough, the only time I notice is with multiple GB size downloads. I even stream AAC and HD video with no problems. 6meg will be nice when the put it here though. 
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UPDATE: (1/18/03)
Well due to changing addresses I am no longer with Earthlink. I had to switch to Bellsouth because my new address is 19,000ft from the CO and EL doesn't service beyond 15,000. (My old address was 14,000ft) EL gave my the complete run around by first trying to transfer my service to a location they could not. This back and forth resulted in me being a month and a half without DSL. On a good note, because of all the hell I went through with misinformation and bad CSR's, they only charged me $49 cancellation fee versus the $250 I would have gotten hit with.
The electronic portion of Earthlink is great, once the people get involved though, things seem to go down hill fast. If you have Bellsouth as an option in your area, seek them first.
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UPDATE: (5/7/04)
After well over a year with Bellsouth, I am extremely pleased with the service. No outages at all that I am aware of, or at least I have not experienced this. I am still getting about 1100/230 on speed but considering the extreme distance I am from the CO, that's more than acceptable. The service is the following:
1500/256 ADSL (PPPoE) Service with self installation @ $49/mo.
Westell Wirespeed Dual Ethernet-USB Modem w/ Single Port Router.
1 Email Account w/ 10? Sub accounts
10MB Webspace
Dynamic IP Address
20 Hours of Dial up access
The few times I've had to contact tech support the techs were knowledgeable and got past the sync issue I had (once). I don't use their email service at all but there's about 3-6 spam messages a week in the account. I also do not use their web space as I have my own server elsewhere. The pool of IP's are fairly small and they are pretty close in range so you may be picked up especially by sites that log ip's (like message boards) I've not experienced any DoS type attacks with BellSouth and have not even experienced net congestion during the worm/virus outbreaks of the past year.
As a bonus, BS is now offering an "Xtreme" tier that for $5 more dollars a month gets you 3Mbps service, a sweet deal in my opinion. There has been lots of hooplah over issues so I am holding off for now. I still give my recommendation for BS in South Florida if you want a fast, stable, provider.
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Update 11/07
I am an AT&T broadband customer now due to them merging with BSFA. I wouldn't have noticed except that they knocked out my DSL for 1 day during the changeover. I have been getting 2.5 to 2.6Mbps with them on the Xtreme tier. I am not in the area for the 6meg package and I hope they address that soon. The only change is they gave me a static IP automatically which is no big deal.
So far so good.
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