To: Robert Scott who wrote (3216 ) 1/24/1999 12:14:00 PM From: Pruguy Read Replies (1) | Respond to
correct, I pay 29.95/mo for the adsl service, 14.95/mo for the isp through the phone company, and 9.95/mo to aol...this currently allows me essentially 2 phone lines, since you can be on the phone and the internet at the same time and allows me to toggle between 3 browsers at one time. So far i have not found the local phone company to have service or support as good as aol, and I am not sure it is worth the extra bucks for the speed. I am 17000 ft from the CO and presently am not getting a quick link-up....they are trying to correct the problem, but so far have not had success. A lot of folks talk about adsl as being so great, but it is extremely new and frankly has a lot of problems that come with it. The phone co. has been to my house 7 times and will be here at least one more....they also would have given up on me if I wasn't so persisitent, first they were saying my house wasn't wired properly, which they later realized it was, and then they were insisting I was getting a quick link unitll I persuaded them to come to my house to check for themselves....their equipment in the CO which is run by Cisco, was giving them false information. I have heard that cable gets very slow when there are a lot of concurrent users on the same node.....neither technology seems to be the end all answer to this bandwith problem....I suggest their is a lot of work still to be done.(IMHO this reminds me of 93 when TCI and BELL Atlantic announced a hook up and was promising this wonderful cable technology which would be widely available in 1995 to the customers of those companies.....Deal never happened, TCI took4 years to get back to the price it achieved on the false promises and they have yet to deliver most of what they were promising 5 years ago
