DSL provider recommendation

Wed Jul 23 15:48:35 PDT 2003

> SBC has been way to unreliable in the past few months.

Uh-oh.  When I had DSL using three companies (Bell for the loop, Covad for 
DSL, and a third party as my ISP) I blamed my troubles on the fact of there 
being three companies.  I thought surely if Bell owned the whole 
problem.... [1]

I'm not sure if they're still into DSL, but contact Meer.net.  They 
continue to earn my business every day, and they just totally rock.  But 
the loop will still belong to the ILEC, and the DSLAM to the CLEC.  So 
you'll still be doomed.  (In my earlier 3-vendor days, the ISP was never 
the problem.)  Consider moving in order to get cable modem service. 
Comcast has surprised me (in St. Paul, MN) for not screwing up, yet. 
Though it's early.

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[1] During that event I said to a friend of mine, "OK, it's time to start 
our own phone company.  How much worse could we f*ck this up?"  And the 
latter has since passed into a proverb.