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Hola Group,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I've had BellSouth DSL for a couple of years in rural NC; Boone - home of Appalachian State. I routinely have faster connectivity at home than I do in my office at the U. It's been very reliable, too.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Bill</div><div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>_____________________________________</div><div>Bill Bauldry</div><div>Professor of Mathematics</div><div>Appalachian State U</div><div>_____________________________________</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br><div><div>On Sep 19, 2007, at 10:50 AM, <a href="mailto:x4u-request@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">x4u-request@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a> wrote:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">I too have BellSouth DSL in Miami and the service was horrible back </span></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">when they first rolled it out in the 1990's, but it's been pretty <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">reliable for the past five or six years.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The service will drop out <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">for a few hours at a time, several times per year that I notice. It's <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">rare to be disconnected for more than 24 hours.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Installation is the <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">easiest part.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>