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Review by Clueless Too See Profile

  • Location: Calistoga, Napa, CA, USA
  • Cost: $50 per month
  • Install: about 10 days
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Since the installation 3 days ago I cannot stop smiling.

I live in a mountainous and largely undeveloped rural area, 7 miles from the
nearest town and 1 mile from the nearest neighbor I have suffered years of
noisy and incredibly slow dial-up lines, the onerous data limits and prohibitive
expense of satellite, and witnessed the decline of cellular from barely
adequate (when I was one of the few users connected to my local tower) to
the current sorry state of congestion and overload (unusable during daylight
hours, less than a third of its former speed during a steadily shrinking
"usable" period in the wee hours of the morning.

My desperate search for any viable alternative ended when dslreports.com
and its broadband search led me to CDS Wireless DSL, for which I am
most grateful and send dslreports,com a huge and heartfelt "Thank You!"

My e-mail inquiry to CDS Wireless was answered within 1 hour by a friendly
and technically informative phone call from one of the owners, followed 10
days later by a friendly, informal, and technically flawless installation.

The service so far meets or exceeds the speed and quality of standard wired
DSL, which for someone who had resigned himself to never being able to
have that level of speed and quality, is like heaven. That is why I can't stop
smiling.

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lodged 10.4 years ago


Review by rfrary See Profile

  • Location: Sebastopol, Sonoma, CA, USA
  • Cost: $65 per month (12 month contract)
  • Install: about 7 days
Dependable 'Always-on' wireless Broadband connection
A little slower than some other 'wired' broadband services
Trouble free equip. worked flawlessly for the nearly 4 yrs subscribed
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They're Great! Where no other solution exists, other than dial-up, they provide a stable broadband connection at a very competitive price. Their customer support has improved by 'leaps and bounds' over the last 2 years and is now top notch. I'd still be with them but phone dsl finally became available and I couldn't resist the 6+ megabit download speed for $40 / mo.

[old review]: Where no other solution other than dial-up is available, they provide a stable broadband connection at a very competitive price. Just hope you don't need any live communication with them, because you'll never get a call back if you leave a message on their answering machine. Other than that I'd have to say that they're great!

(note from dslreports:) [Here at the dslreports.com offices we still look back with pleasure at the day your review arrived. We all gathered around the printer as it clicked out those fateful words " Where no other solution ..". After we were done reading, and tissues had been passed around, we framed the review and hung it on our wall where, to this day, it still has the power to move vistors to tears.]

member for 22.9 years, 364 visits, last login: 1.2 years ago
updated 13.9 years ago