Rob
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join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL | reply to LeftOfSanity
Re: Doesn't matter to me...
My DSL service by BellSouth provides me with pretty much 99% uptime. If BellSouth can do, why can't everyone else? |
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Matt
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
 ·North State Commun..
| said by Rob  :My DSL service by BellSouth provides me with pretty much 99% uptime. If BellSouth can do, why can't everyone else? Bellsouth provided me with 99% downtime. Well, not 99%, but every time it would storm it would go out throughout the storm, every couple of minutes.
Back to Cable and it's rock solid.
It's largely dependent on your area.
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LeftOfSanity
join:2005-11-06
Felton, DE | reply to Rob
lol...i agree but pretty much isnt guaranteed |
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McLovin
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Fairbanks, AK
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·PTIAlaska.NET
| said by LeftOfSanity :lol...i agree but pretty much isnt guaranteed They can guarantee anything they want, whether it happens or not is a different story. They can tie all sorts of guarantees to any service, and in the fine print say that the QoS may not be as good as advertised. Which is the case for most local telcos trying to play down from the big guys.
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NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
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Over the whole time that Pacbell was the telephone provider for this house, uptime would be close to 99%. During the last two years, while operating under the SBC umbrella, there have been only three significant outages, only one of which dragged on for more than four days.
I have not had a DSL outage, per se; but the three phone outages did degrade the DSL service.
The neighborhood is over 40 years old. How much of the plant in the neighborhood is that old is a guess; but the termination blocks for the drops look fairly new.
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Norman
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