Boricua65
join:2002-01-26
Puerto Rico |  Very nice
For that price I'll take it. I really wish they pay attention to the upload speeds, that is way too slow. |
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Anonymous_
Anonymous
Premium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
clubs:
 ·RoadRunner Cable
·Time Warner Cable
 ·Time Warner VOIP
4 edits | lol
that price makes cable look better
10Megabit/s down 1Megabit/s up
for 79.99 NO contract.(with comes Voice plan) after 3 years you will be paying less even with the voice plan after you add on the cost of an phone plan with that Dsl
static IP is like 129.99 but @ 15mbps/2mbps just internet
NO contract.
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ctceo
Premium
join:2001-04-26
South Bend, IN
clubs:
·magicjack.com
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·Comcast
 ·AT&T Midwest
 ·HughesNet Satellit..
| at&t
Hopefully this will spur at&t to offer Max Sync (8192) to those who can achieve it. Their current packages only support that amount of total bandwidth in aggregate form, and you need a special router/switch. Until them were stuck with a 6016 down, 768 up. |
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JSRoman
Premium
join:2005-03-10
Callahan, FL
2 edits | Windstream is my provider
I tried ordering this a couple of days ago but too far away. Hell they rep. told I was too far away to even get the speeds I was getting now. Told her don't you touch my account or I will do a Freddy Krueger and get you thru the phoneline. I'll call again in a couple of days to see if I can order it. 
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King P
Don't blame me. I voted for Ron Paul
Premium
join:2004-11-17
Inman, SC | Not available in Spartanburg, SC
Still on 3 Mbps here. |
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Cerabus12
Dial-up 4 Life
join:2005-08-09
Brooker, FL | says its aavailable for me |
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The Beer
I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
Premium
join:2001-07-24
Omaha, NE
clubs:
·ViaTalk
| Must be too far
To the Main CO.... |
Thanks Windstream! |
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Tarheels Fan
Premium
join:2006-01-05 | Yeah because everyone knows that DSL is based on the way the crow flies. You could have 3 miles of cable running back to the CO... |
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | if I could get that for $45 dry pair, I'd jump.
But I can't so I won't.
Windstream, once again....
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benc
Premium
join:2007-06-17
Glen Carbon, IL
·Charter Pipeline
·Future Nine Corpor..
·Callcentric
·AT&T Midwest
| Three Years?!
Who in their right mind would get that?? I consider even a two-year contract to be unacceptable.
Even one year contracts annoy me, though I will if I have no other option.
What if something better comes along? What if the pricing becomes better?
What if, you want to save money and do without the service? |
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Piggie
I Actually use Windstream
Premium
join:2005-11-23
Orange Springs, FL
·HughesNet Satellit..
·Windstream
| Available Now for Limited Areas
This was an overplayed announcement and probably a little premature, if you read the WS Forum. The news article here over plays it's readiness in the same way WS apparently reported it in Sunday's Lexington's Times also per the WS forum. I guess one can tell this from so many less than positive replies here. Premature announcements from anyone doesn't do any good when they state "available now".
It is being rolled out in Lexington, KY because that is there one big city and the a good bit of the rest of their national territory is rural.
There are also people that say that is available in other areas but none of them have actually seen their modems train to the new speed per posts in the WS forum.
Meanwhile probably the lot of us on WS will be on what ever speed we have for the duration, interim or however you wish to phrase it.
And last but far from least, WS has way to slow of upload speeds, in particular when you get in their higher tiers.
3m/384 is tolerable but once you get to 6M/384 then to achieve full download, one can not be uploading at all. For example with an upload throttle to 140kbps on a 384 up system, download will peak at best at 2M, maybe, more like 1.7 to 1.8. So anyone doing any uploading might as well stay on 3/384. And NO I don't do bit torrent, before some one jumps to that conclusion.
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| Speedstream 4200 Modem - 3m/384 plan | W98-W2KSP4-XPSP2 - All AMD | Buffalo WHR G54S with Tomato 1.13 | 3 downstream switches feeding 6 total clients (no wireless) | Including the Data port on the side of my neck | |
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cvrefugee
Premium
join:2003-09-15
Corona, CA
| reply to Anonymous_
Re: lol
said by Anonymous_  :that price makes cable look better 10Megabit/s down 1Megabit/s up for 79.99 NO contract.(with comes Voice plan) after 3 years you will be paying less even with the voice plan after you add on the cost of an phone plan with that Dsl static IP is like 129.99 but @ 15mbps/2mbps just internet NO contract. This is $45/month, I doubt a POTS line will cost more than $25/month. |
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really dumb
@comcast.net | reply to Tarheels Fan
Re: Must be too far
That would be just **dumb**. |
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Anonymous_
Anonymous
Premium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
clubs: | reply to cvrefugee
Re: lol
yea if you get the works it's alot more |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | reply to really dumb
Re: Must be too far
would be dumb but its true. |
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GVG
join:2006-09-19
Charlotte, NC
1 edit | reply to Piggie
Re: Available Now for Limited Areas
OK, I took the plunge. I called WS and they say my area can get 12/786. I have a 30 day trial period, and no contract so I can cancel anytime. They say my line should be on by 5/2 so I will report back then how it compares to my 8/512 from Time Warner. I will be not only looking at speed but latency and jitter as I run 3 VOIP lines over my connection and latency to the VOIP server and Jitter can wreak havoc on the connection.
Can anyone tell me who the primary backbone for Windstream is? TW used to use Level3, but now they use their own network. |
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BOGBS
Premium
join:2004-05-11
Saco, ME
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to Boricua65
Re: Very nice
They are probably using ADSL2+, and that's the upload limitation. Even Annex M can little more than triple the speeds, and not very many providers in the US have it thoroughly tested..
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU_G.992.5_Annex_M
Only so much can be milked out of copper, depending on which type of xDSL used, and then the distance limitations increase even more so. |
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Seph83
Gone Insane
Premium
join:2004-04-29
Blairsville, GA
·Windstream
| Call the devil, cause there must be snow today!
Wow, we made the front page. Our little sharecropper ISP. Makes a person almost want to cry... almost.
Lets see here... I'm 1800 feet(actually line distance, as told to me by a level 2 tech who checked for me) from the nearest Remote Terminal, and it only took me a year or so after the rest of the flipping network got 3mb, and I still don't qualify for 6mb... So 12mb ADSL2+? Ah, probably in about 3-5 years... If ever...
But congrats for those handful of lucky people who might qualify in the next year or so!
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"I've Gone to Find Myself. If I Get Back Before I Return, Keep Me Here!!" |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | reply to The Beer
Re: Must be too far
Get free space optics and a 100mbit port and your set for life. Or hell, put a wifi transmitter on the CO. Not sure what the leasing fee would be though. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | reply to Seph83
Re: Call the devil, cause there must be snow today!
The phone company forgot your RT exists, surprised you even have DSL. |
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