RE: *** ADMIN: Probable web site outage!

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll be going T1 as soon as I get a permanent residence (we're renting right
now, but moving into a house this year hopefully).  DSL is indeed cheap, but
I'm not thrilled with the response at times - for example, I'm paying for
416Kbps, but I only get 30Kbytes.  They claim that that's equivalent to
300Kbps.  This is interesting, because I thought start and stop bits went
away a long time ago, and more annoying is the response that, "yeah, 300 is
about average for a 416 line).

Ugh.

Joe

P.S. Why did Covad drop you?  I've got Covad/Rhythms here.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of makins@hannasteel.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 8:29 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: *** ADMIN: Probable web site outage!
>
>
>
> Amen,
>
> I have been dropped by Covad/Bluestar, switched to Connectsouth and now
> Connectsouth is bankrupt and I could lose service at any time.   I am in
> the process of switching over to a dedicated T1 with one of the major long
> distance/Internet providers.   In most cases it takes at least 30 days to
> get a new circuit installed.   I would agree that unless the DSL is
> provided by the local Telco I would stay away.   The service worked great
> and was inexpensive (299/month for 1.2Mb/s) but the long term future of
> many of these providers is questionable.    Dedicated T1 access has really
> gone down in price over the last couple of years.   Most of the
> quotes that
> I got for T1 service were about $1000 per month, including the local loop.

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