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To: TGPTNDR who wrote (238923)	8/16/2007 2:35:16 PM
From: j3pflynn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 275872

TGP - Don't know who your service is with, but with Embarq(originally Sprint), at first I had some issues, but once I pushed to get them worked out, it's been almost as reliable as basic phone service. I think I've only had one or two failures over the past 4-5 years. Also very few problems with the Bellsouth service here at work. It is amusing watching the AOL/Roadrunner ads on TV (with the guy sitting in the opened monitor) dissing DSL, telling you to upgrade to their(small print 768Kbps)high speed cable, when I'm already at 3Gbps on DSL and could be higher if I wanted to pay more! :)

To: TGPTNDR who wrote (238923)	8/16/2007 2:58:53 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

tgp, I'm changing over to DSL from Cable. So far DSL is much snappier but very unreliable. Why did you switch? I switched from DSL to cable precisely because DSL was very unreliable. (I was struggling with DSL from the very beginning. I was a beta tester for Verizon). Joe

To: TGPTNDR who wrote (238923)	8/16/2007 5:09:36 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Tgp: I switched to ADSL from cable about 20 months ago. So far its more reliable. TWC would disconnect my cable because some technician wouldn't label the cables correctly and then force me to be off for 3 days while they get someone back to fix it. This happened three times in 3.5 years. "Oops our error" didn't cut it the last time. If they can't get someone to fix it ASAP, then it just goes to show how they treat their paying customers, very badly. I switched to ADSL from Ameritech, now AT&T. Although some outages still occur, they are of the 10-15 minute variety and automatically come back up. I had some teething problems with Linux on my A64 box with regard to the ADSL modem, but most of that is the difference in operating mode between the old cable modem and the newer ADSL modem (cable used the EoC mode and ADSL uses PPPoE mode). It is snappier because I'm not sharing it with 10-30 other users on the cable. Funny thing today after two 5 minute outages two days ago, the ADSL modem (Siemans Slipstream 4300) internet light is out, yet works just fine at 6016/768 (down/up). My preferential pricing deal is about over and I'll likely switch down to 3072/512 at $24.99. I don't use the extra 2944/256 very much over the last year and probably wouldn't miss it for the $5+/mo it will save me over the pref pricing and $10+/mo over continuing the 6016/768 service. One thing I am finding out is my A64 3500+ is using less power now than it used to. With my near silent HSF that has a thermal resistance of 0.39C/W, I get 6.4W TDP idling at 1GHz and 30.8W TDP at 2.2GHz gaming. That's better than the 38.5W TDP it used to get at 2.2GHz gaming and 45.7W TDP gaming mildly overclocked to 2.43GHz. It is rated for 50W TDPmax at 2.2GHz. The only real change was going to 3GB of memory from 1GB (I got a great deal on 2x1GB PC-3200 memory). Pete