[ale] BellSouth DSL setup

[Alan Dobkin]

On 9/17/2005 12:24 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts wrote:
>   
>> This was true for a while, but I don't think it is true anymore.  They
>> recently dropped their residential DSL prices across the board, and it
>> only requires BS dial tone to get the standard pricing.  They state
>> pricing that is only $10 more if you don't have BS dial tone at all,
>> which I assume means they are now or will be offering "naked" DSL lines,
>> like Speakeasy and others.  So, their new pricing seems very competitive
>> to me.  Check out fastaccess.com for more info.
>>     
>
> I'd surely like a link because the info I posted earlier was from their 
> site.  Further, I just got DSL Lite installed at my mother-in-laws and 
> it is $24.95.  This is with Bellsouth dial tone.
>   

I was not disputing the information you posted, Geoffrey.  I was
disputing the comment that James Kinney made below regarding BS pricing
still being very expensive.  In any case, here is the link for the
pricing I referred to:

https://www.fastaccess.com/content/consumer/product_comparison.jsp

Alan
>   
>>     
>>> **In Louisiana and Georgia, the price requires BellSouth retail local
>>> voice service. For customers without BellSouth retail local voice
>>> service, the prices are as follows:
>>>
>>> FastAccess DSL Lite - $34.95
>>> FastAccess DSL Ultra - $42.95
>>> FastAccess DSL Xtreme - $52.95
>>>
>>>       
>> Alan
>>
>> On 9/16/2005 8:46 AM, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> The BS prices are only valid IF you have phone service with them AND you
>>> have pile of other phone service add-ons like caller-id, voice mail.
>>> They have some package name for it. If all you have is a basic dialtone
>>> phone line, the DSL price jumps about $15/mo making BS the most
>>> expensive player in the Atlanta market.
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 20:34 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>       
>>>> James Sumners wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> I am interested in this as well. My Grandfather asked me about
>>>>> Bellsouth this week because he has the cheapest service Speedfactory
>>>>> offers and it is more expensive than the 1.5Mb package from Bellsouth.
>>>>> But, now that I think about it, he uses a Netgear router so it may not
>>>>> be too difficult.
>>>>>      
>>>>>           
>>>> ???? checking out speedfactory and bellsouth pages:
>>>>
>>>> 		256/128		1500/256	3000/384
>>>>
>>>> Speedfactory	29.95		44.95		54.95
>>>> 	
>>>> BellSouth	24.95		32.95		42.95
>>>>
>>>> I don't see how 29.95 is cheaper then 32.95, but I can see how it would 
>>>> appear to be a good deal to double your speed for 3 bucks a month.
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