jsimmons
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-24
Falls Church, VA
| reply to Richard B
Re: Soon there will be no independents left....
LOL... Covad's DSL which Earthlink used to service my address was FAR superior to Verizon's equivalent. I KNOW - I tried both at the same address over the same copper. Verizon just couldn't Git 'er done wit the same speed and reliability.
FWIW, Covad had their OWN equipment co-located in Verizon's POP. All Covad did was lease a pair of copper wires to my house to get the DSL signal from their equip. to my modem. They then routed the data packets onto Earthlink's network. Verizon got a few bucks a month for Covad's use of their copper, but aside from that, Verizon had nothing to do with my service.
Alas, I eventually bailed on DSL and headed for the higher bandwidth of cable and never looked back. Verizon FIOS, while offered in parts of NoVA under an agressive buildout, has never reached my neighborhood
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