[P1] sbc yahoo dsl

[Pam Sorooshian]

On Jan 14, 2004, at 9:16 AM, Harry D. Corsover wrote:

> This must vary greatly by location. I have had Earthlink DSL in 
> Evergreen, CO for several years, with only very rare outages. And I've 
> never had the finger-pointing stuff you refer to above. Fast 
> (nominally 1.5 down, 384 up, with speed tests showing close to that) 
> and stable. And I've found their tech support knowledgeable (yes, even 
> about Macs) and helpful.

We've had earthlink high speed through our cable company for a year - 
two outages, both lasted all day - both in the last 2 weeks. Earthlink 
was very nice but said it was my cable company, but my cable company's 
phone system automatically switched my phone calls over to Earthlink. 
VERY frustrating. When I finally found a way around their phone 
switching, they wouldn't talk to me until I'd unhooked the cablemodem 
from my router and plugged a computer directly into the cablemodem.

Earthlink was right - it was the cable company's outage. I discovered 
that a carwash very near my house has free wireless access. They have 
little tables and a coffee bar. So that's where I'll go hang out next 
time I have a long outage, I guess. Maybe this'll motivate me to get my 
car washed once in a while <g>.

-pam
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