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koam
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Nothing new for Verizon

In the early days of DSL, Verizon (formerly BellAtlantic & NYNEX), had TV and radio ads on 24/7 claiming that DSL was always on with no dialing. (to compare it to dialup which 99% of users had at the time...1999 or so).

I was one of the first customers of their DSL. What did they install on your computer? A DIALER. and when you were trying to connect (every 3 minutes or so in my case) it said on the screen, "DIALING...."
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Well PPPOE isn't exactly dialing. Cable has to "dial" too because its part of the sync process to determine the bandwidth and authenticate. It just happens that they gave you a DSL modem vs a router with PPPOE authentication built in. Also sync is almost instantaneous compared to physical dial tone.

But you are right that their software is crap when they first introduced DSL.


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