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Review by badbry 
UPDATED: 6.4 years ago
member for 7.3 years, 672 visits, last login: 5.1 years ago
 Fresno,Fresno,CA
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1.5 Down /128 UP
Bryan
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Review by plastkman
UPDATED: 6.4 years ago
member for 8.8 years, 203 visits, last login: 5.2 years ago
San Jose,Santa Clara,CA
$49 per month (12 month contract)
 SBC
CLEC party: SBC
 "Constant connection, very little downtime"
 "Customer serivice, speeds are only middle of the road"
 "Decent speeds, avereage price. Shop around before you decide"
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SBC dsl is ok. I have not upgraded to the Yahoo package yet. I rarely use my sbcglobal email, so no complaints there. as far as up time, i've been up for as long as i can rememeber. had a few latency problems here and there, some routing issues, but otherwise they are pretty good
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 Review by graysonf
UPDATED: 6.4 years ago
member for 10.3 years, 5769 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Fort Lauderdale,Broward,FL
$49 per month
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Defunct ISP as of Jan 2003.
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Review by JJV
UPDATED: 6.4 years ago
member for 8.5 years, 3606 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Seattle,King,WA
$49 per month (month by month)
Covad
CLEC party: Covad
"It worked for a couple days"
"its not working now"
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I hope they get this sucker workin cause internet over my cell phone is kinda weird
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 Review by tidal
UPDATED: 6.5 years ago
member for 8.8 years, 1166 visits, last login: 2 days ago
Meridianville,Madison,AL
$59 per month
 about 35 days
BellSouth
"Good connection and price for features, although higher than Directtv"
"None"
"Very satisified with service."
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Rock solid connection with SnappyDSL
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 Review by HomeLvr
UPDATED: 6.5 years ago
member for 7.9 years, 2057 visits, last login: 35 days ago
Lake Worth,Palm Beach,FL
$49 per month (12 month contract)
about 10 days
BellSouth
"Great Speed!, Static IP, Friendliness of DirectvDSL Staff"
"The Upload speed jumps around but still is pretty good"
"Great DSL Service for the money!"
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DirectvDSL has been great! I had one problem with my speeds on the first day so they sent a technician over right away the next morning. DSL was ready with equipment in less time then DTVDSL said it would happen. the Directv gateway (modem) is stable and no connection losses. I had 480 kbps download and 99 upload. After I tweaked with DrTCP my download speed jumped to 1.0 mbps and 170 kbps upload. The tech support wait time is most of the time great only once that I had to wait 20 minutes on hold.
I get all great service being over 20k from the CO! I live right at the end of the DSL line in my area.
I must say if your telco is bellsouth dont go with bellsouth DSL go with Directv DSL today! Thumbs UP! to Directv
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UPDATE!!!! WELL SINCE DIRECTV DSL LEFT ME I STILL CANT GET ANY OTHER ISP TO GIVE ME SERVICE. I DON'T KNOW WHY!!!!!!
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 Review by Lloydr
UPDATED: 6.5 years ago
member for 8 years, 2023 visits, last login: 88 days ago
Milton,Santa Rosa,FL
$49 per month (12 month contract)
about 12 days
BellSouth
CLEC party: BellSouth
"fast service, easy install, free equipment, no activation fee"
"none so far"
"directv dsl is running great so far!"
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so far directv dsl has been great with speeds of 1198/220 steadily and it only took about 10 minutes to setup and install the software.... later on i will be running CAT 5 straight from the phone box to the gateway to see what kinds of speed i might get.....so far i haven't had to talk with tech support b/c i haven't had ANY problems yet.....l8er
ARGGGGGG lol dead isp.....be on megapath in another 3 or 4 days probaly lol....kets jus see how much downtime we have lol, lata
MEGAPATH NOW!!! WOOT!
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 Review by DropZone
UPDATED: 6.6 years ago
member for 8.5 years, 130 visits, last login: 1.6 years ago
Lake Zurich,Lake,IL
$49 per month
Ameritech
CLEC party: Ameritech
"Finally Up and Running... Better D/L Speeds than Before"
"Started out Rhythms/Telocity Customer with better service options than now."
"Happy with the switch, miss the upload speeds, PPPoE pretty transparent."
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I started out with Rhythms/Telocity and was happy with my SDSL 384/384. First, Telocity was bought by DirecTV DSL, then Rhythms went belly-up. After a lot of confusion and a lot of worrying, I was provisioned through Ameritech and up and running with DirecTV DSL. My speeds now are twice what they were with Rythms, but I was all ready to start to build my own server to play around with and now, with my 128K U/L, I guess I'm going to pass on it. I was a little upset with the fact I was losing SDSL, Direct Connection (non-PPPoE), and they were still charging the same amount, but I guess I can't complain. I'm not one of these people who think inexpensive bandwidth is a consitiutional right. It's out there, if you want it, pay for it. If you want a nice car, or nice house, you pay for the ammenities. And they DID let me keep my Static IP! Overall, I'm happy with the way DirecTV handled the switch. Their support staff leaves a little to be desired, but luckily, I don't have to call them very often.
My DirecTV DSL Wishlist:
1. Faster U/L
2. Network Status on the Web
3. Billing on the Web
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 Review by Swordfish II
UPDATED: 6.6 years ago
member for 7.5 years, 1444 visits, last login: 73 days ago
Anaheim,Orange,CA
$20 per month
SBC
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Update: After directtv went belly up i was faced with the problem of finding a new provider. After researching Yahoo/sbc i have reverted back to dial up. Yahoo/sbc was going to charge me $50 a month for only 256/128. I wish cable was avalaible in my area.
Update: To date i have had no connection problems, and if there were any outages i have to seen them, called tech support once since my original post cause my download speed went down, however it was not their fault, it was the server that i was dling from. I have seen bad reviews for directtv however it has been great for me, i recommend it to anyone.
Ordered dsl on May the , they said it could take up to 4 weeks. I was kind of surprised at this but its dsl so i figured that its worth the wait. It turns out that it only took about a week and a half to two weeks, i dont remember exactly. Anyway install was a snap, however i cant figure out why the also include a usb port on the modem true it may be easy to install but everyone knows that ethernet is better by far. The first few days i had no troubles with my dsl. It was about that time that i remembered this site. I came here and ran a speed test and was shocked at the result. I wasnt gettiung anywhere close to the speed that i was paying for ( i had ordered the 1500/128 package ). I was pretty pissed at this but i figured it was nothing that a few tweaks couldnt handle so i went to the forum and tweaked. Unfortunately it didnt help, but the kind people in the forum told me that it could be a cap.
I called up directtv and asked them about the possibility of my line being capped, they said that none of our lines are capped. I then asked if it could be the phone co that did it and they said no. They ran test on my line from their comps and said that they would file a trouble ticket and get someone from the phone co to come over and check my line and that they would be out the next day. Well the next day came and went and no one came out so at about 9 i called directtv again, they said he would be out the next day. The next day i got a phone call from the phone co and they said that there wazs no point in coming out and that my line was capped. Then they said that directtv had requested that it be capped and that the phone co couldnt remove it without authorization from directtv. This really pissed me off, so i called up directtv and started yelling at them. Props to the tech support he listened to me and then explained that they did not cap the line and that it was the phone co that did it. Then he called up the phone co and got them to remove the cap!!! My hat is off to them for that.
I now get 1301/100 which is as much as you can expext, it is over %80. I have not had to call tech support since then, and as for drop offs i have only had a few, it will go down but then come right back up. Overall i would give them a B+ not an A just because it takes a long time to talk to someone in tech support.
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 Review by hawkfish
UPDATED: 6.6 years ago
member for 9.2 years, 518 visits, last login: 62 days ago
Justice,Cook,IL
$49 per month
about 100 days
Ameritech
"Fast connection - Staic IP address - Tech support was always helpful."
"DNS and routing issues - Email service is down often."
"Fast reliable connection."
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Pre sales support was great. Install was slow because of issues at the Telco Central Office but it was worth the wait. Tech support and Customer service was very good. Setup was simple and pain free. Speed is very good and consistant. DNS and routing has some problems as well as email but those can be fixed by using third party software or free email services.
Overall I am happy and would never consider going back to dial-up access.
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