| reply to snowman41
Re: Victory is mine! "Any words of wisdom as to how you got the phone company off their butts?"
It's mostly thanks to one really good tech who thought that it should be possible to get it working out here. He personally de-loaded my line, then fixed the wiring (taps) in several places to get a signal out to me. Very dedicated, and he single-handedly saved me as a customer for them.
"Did you have to pay them to unload the line?"
I suppose you might say that, since I've been paying for the DSL service for several months (under a deal where I got $45 a month off my satellite TV service), but otherwise no, I just called up customer support and kept harassing them until they sent someone out.
"Who's providing the dsl? A third party?"
Nope, the local phone company (Frontier Comm). They seem to have pretty loose limits as to how far they'll sell their DSL services.
Siryak; don't rule it out. I'm something ridiculous like 5 miles from the CO, but I've still got service. It really depends on the lines and the system. Lots of factors. |
