DSL provider recommendation

Wed Jul 23 18:05:31 PDT 2003

hi ya

if a business cannot afford to be offline during business
hours, they should have at least 2 dsl lines just in case
one dies in the middle of the day

outages and quality seem to vary depending on city/block location 

users at home on dsl should have a backup dialup or dsl or cable
( use 2 of the 3 .. not just one way to get to the world )

c ya
alvin

nobody mentioned rawbandwidth so far... so there ya go

and if you're near charleston/san antonion, pacbell is supposed
to be installing 12Mbps-up/6Mbps-down dsl line to be done by sep/oct 
time frame at roughtly the cost of business dsl line ( about $120/month )

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Brian Street wrote:

> Alberto,
> 
> I have used Bay Area Internet Services for over 5 years. They are on the
> expensive side, but the communications to the users regarding outages, etc.
> have been great. I can also speak highly of their tech support; they seem to
> get it right the first time.
> 
> But, like already mentioned, all lines belong to SBC regardless of the ISP
> or the local loop provider and whenever it falls out of the ISP's realm of
> authority it can be a long and terrible wait at times. For that reason, I
> will never use Verio again after numerous outages sometimes lasting for over
> 8 hours during the business day - it just always came back on and never a
> word about what may have caused the problem or what was done to resolve the
> issue.
> 