[ale] Bellsouth DSL "maintenence"

[miguel]

does sprint have DSL?

-mig

On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 08:43, nick travis wrote:
> That's my problem exactly, DSL service from BellSouth is absolutely
> horrible, but it's the only choice I have.  I'm hoping one day to be
> able to get DSL from one of the other many providers but it's not
> looking like that will happen anytime soon.
> 
> Nick
> 
> On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 07:00, Geof wrote:
> > --- Ronald Chmara <ron at Opus1.COM> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 09:12  AM, Nick
> > > Travis wrote:
> > > > About once a month at 10:00 sharp my Bellsouth DSL
> > > connection goes 
> > > > down, When I call thier tech support I always get
> > > the same answer, 
> > > > "We're doing some maintenence work, you should be
> > > able to connect but 
> > > > it may be down for a few minutes as certain things
> > > are done to the 
> > > > line"  and it's always the same for me, I can't
> > > get a connection until 
> > > > the next morning, has anyone else experienced
> > > this?
> > > 
> > > <rant>
> > > What the hell is it with Georgia?
> > > It's the 21st century, damnit!
> > 
> > Whoa now.  I'll say up front, I'm not a native
> > Georgian, but I still take account of such statements.
> >  The Atlanta area is pretty much the Silicon Valley of
> > the south east.
> > 
> > I will say that you're responding to posts that are
> > dealing with the primary monopolies in this state,
> > BellSouth and Cable companies.  My ISP is Speedfactory
> > and I've never had an outage over a few minutes.  As a
> > matter of fact, in most cases, it's resolved before I
> > get through on the phone.  Oh, yeah, the phone support
> > is excellent.  They know what they are talking about
> > and they actually answer the phone, including
> > weekends.  I called this past Monday (holiday) and
> > talked to someone regarding service questions.
> > 
> > It's all in who you deal with.  I've heard great
> > things about speakeasy as well.  Unfortunately, some
> > folks have no alternatives other than dealing with
> > BellSuck or one of the few cable compamies.
> > 
> > 
> > =====
> > ---
> > Until later, Geof
> > 
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