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Review by ddumond
(review was emailed from domain datastreet.com)
lodged 11.2 years ago
 Thousand Oaks,Ventura,CA
 $53 per month Verizon (ex GTE)- CLEC party: Verizon (ex GTE)
 "Good Alternative To GTE Worldwind Cable Slodem Service" "No Newsgroup access, Still uses GTE phone lines." "Speeds beat Cable Modems locally and you get a static IP!"
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I signed up for their self install kit. No sign-up fee, no contract, and a
free DSL modem. For a static IP and their Bronze package (768 downstream/
128 upstream) with 2 email accounts I pay $52.95/month. This is billed
directly to my credit card which I am not to happy about. I would rather be
invoiced, but hey I refuse to deal with GTE/Verizon directly. The service is
mostly reliable. The modem has been down for more than 4 hours only twice in
the 3 months I have had the account. One strange repeating occurance though,
is that I will lose internet access for no reason. The modem still looks
like it is functioning, but I need to unplug the modem and plug it back in.
This happens about once every 2 weeks. Just an annoyance I guess. I am
about 1/2 a mile from the central office and my actual line speeds are apox.
500kbps downstream and 75kbps upstream. It does vary from 350kbps to 749kbps
depending on when I test the line speed. Overall I can recommend them to
other users.
On a side note, this ISP does not offer news group access, so if that is
important to you look elsewhere..
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