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 Review by cautery 
UPDATED: 2.3 years ago
member for 8.7 years, 565 visits, last login: 1 year ago
 Hanford,Kings,CA
 $49 per month (12 month contract)
 about 14 days
 SBC
 "Good service at a fair price."
 "Web site is badly organized making it difficult to find correct/current info."
 "They've come a long way in the last year or so... I'm sticking with them. :)"
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I'm "grandfathered" under the old 384-1.5 (guaranteed 384) plan for $49.95 a month, self install, free modem (with rebate). And since my capacitive loop length is right at 18,200 feet and I'm getting 640/108 transfer rates with a 768 cap, i'm staying put! The nly other option for me is wireless, and they can't touch the 768/128 and unlimited throughput for anywhere near $49.95. And I'd have to buy the CPE and pay an install fee.
In addition, ASI and PacBell have gotten much better at working together here locally. When my line started having probs, I got a truck roll within a day from ASI, who got a PacBell truck roll the SAME day to remove a bridge tap off my line.
The field techs out this way may not be the best trained or best equipped, but they are working hard to give the best service possible within the constraints placed on them by management and the aging plant.
Thumbs up overall.
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Review by philipsj
UPDATED: 4.1 years ago
member for 7.8 years, 23 visits, last login: 59 days ago
Columbia,Richland,SC
$45 per month (12 month contract)
about 14 days
BellSouth
CLEC party: BellSouth
"DirecTV Was great!! Good connectivity. Good speed"
"They went away"
"Sad they left. Were the ultimate Geek DSL"
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These guys were great -- let you do anything and run anything on your DSL connection.
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 Review by unsub
UPDATED: 4.9 years ago
member for 9.4 years, 1682 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Newton Upper Falls,Middlesex,MA
Contract price not specified.
"If"
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 Review by ghost446
UPDATED: 5.8 years ago
member for 9.2 years, 736 visits, last login: 73 days ago
Coraopolis,Allegheny,PA
Contract price not specified.
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 Review by gnosys
UPDATED: 5.8 years ago
member for 7.6 years, 1992 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Marietta,Cobb,GA
$49 per month (12 month contract)
about 14 days
BellSouth
"Good speeds, easy hook-up"
"Newsgroup selection is a bit weak"
"Happy Boy"
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I was up and running within two weeks of sealing the deal w/ DirecTV. Setup was very easy and everything worked just as the instructions said they would. Since getting the service, I have done some research here on DSLR about DirecTV as a provider (hey, better late than never), and I have read reviews from glowing to condemning, so I guess it doesn't pay to generalize about a provider's quality when there are so many variables involved but, whatever the reason, I have been very lucky with DTV. Speeds consistantly in the 1200/225 (out of 1.5/256) range with minimal tweaking. I would recommend these guys.
Update - Well, they're gone now, but they were a good ISP for me right up until the end. I'm with Bellsouth now and they're OK except for no static IP and the recent news server problems.
Update 1/26/2004 - I was feeling guilty about continuously ignoring the periodic prompts to "review my ISP", so I will post a follow-up. Bellsouth has been a good ISP for almost a year now, except for the problems with the News service. Surfing and e-mail have been fast and reliable. I haven't been able to access News for several months now, and I've basically given up. Tried everything I could think of, talked to tech. support 3 different times, but they are ineffective. The last guy I talked to said that they would forward my information onto a line tech. and I would be contacted within 24-48 hours. That was 3 weeks ago and I haven't heard a peep. I'm not a big news user, so it's not a catastrophe for me (i.e., not worth giving them a "horror story" review), although the poor customer service is disappointing. Otherwise, they've been OK. But if a better deal comes along after my contract expires in March, I won't be afraid to check it out.
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Review by wilsongw
UPDATED: 5.9 years ago
member for 8.1 years, 199 visits, last login: 165 days ago
Costa Mesa,Orange,CA
$49 per month
about 21 days
SBC
"Quick Install and Seamless Integration"
"The best install I've had to date"
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I ordered online and within 3 weeks I received my DSL gateway, plugged it in, and was up and running at 1.3 after tweaking. This was the smoothest easiest DSL install I have come across. I did not have to deal with customer service one time (not even for the order). Advertised 1.5 Mbps for $49 with a static IP address - no other service provider came close to this deal.
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 Review by Uneek8
UPDATED: 5.9 years ago
member for 8.3 years, 446 visits, last login: 5.8 years ago
Houston,Harris,TX
$19 per month
about 17 days
Southwestern Bell
"Easy to install, speeds are very fast, simple as 1, 2, 3."
"Upload speed"
"Upload speed might not be so fast, but the download speed is great!"
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Well, after I saw all the horror story's in DSLReports.com I was thinking of canceling my order, but I said it's only $19.99 plus the shipping, its not much, so I decided to give them a try. To my surprise the installation was simple, even a 12 year old kid can do it. The download speed is great! I took some speed test here at DSLReports and got download speeds of 824.2 kbps & 1204 kbps. When I download a file on the web it's about 170KBs/sec which is fast in my opinion. (I live 9900 feet away from the CO.) The upload speed I've seen is about 13KBs/sec, but I don't have a tweak for that. Either way I don't do much "uploading" so this isn't important to me.
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Review by wash9
Posted: 6 years ago
member for 6 years, 3 visits, last login: 3.8 years ago
Toledo,Lucas,OH
$44 per month
about 2 days
"speed, always works"
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I have Buckeye Cable for modem service. They recently upgraded to 2mb down and 256k up. I get very good speeds and it is never down.
They also recently upgraded their mail sever and it works great now. I don't have any problems with it.
If anyone is having problems with it, call their help line because it is not their service, but just something individual in your lines that they can fix.
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 Review by ws
UPDATED: 6.1 years ago
member for 9.9 years, 1963 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Newark,Alameda,CA
$39 per month
SBC
"Inexpensive,"
"SLOW UPLOADDDDD"
"They are OK"
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SBC Yahoo Dsl since Feb 2003.
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 Review by Buckeye
UPDATED: 6.3 years ago
member for 9.3 years, 1286 visits, last login: 32 days ago
Columbus,Franklin,OH
$44 per month (12 month contract)
about 14 days
Ameritech
"Extremely fast speeds"
"Requires a contract"
"Great deal if you are a heavy user"
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I ordered the Expert Plus package from SBC Yahoo!. The speeds are excellent especially for the price.
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