Unfortunately (for me), I am way too far away from any CO to get real DSL. But those prices are pretty good providing they don't raise them at the end of your first contract period. I did a lot of business with Continet when I worked for CommSpan, and they are a good bunch. Very tolerant of my previous employer, too.
Only thing I can get above telephone lines is very expensive satellite based stuff or ATG's "IDSL". It costs about $60 a month and gives you 144k (they use proprietary modems that supposedly actually allow you to use the entire ISDN bandwidth of 144k. Kbob has one). Later, Jim On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 21:56, Ben Barrett wrote: > Jim, what is your 'HO' formed from? I just started a DSL account with > ContiNet, > and here's MHO: They got a great new startup plan that costs $99 for > the setup and includes the modem... service costs scale by bandwidth, I > believe the 768k upper-end for shared lines runs ~$90 per month, but you > could ask Mark directly at 747-8221. I think their lower-end > shared-line service runs around $60 (yeah, DSL is overpriced but nothing > available compares? I cannot get cablemodem where I live, st00pid > at&t).... Well let it be known that I am their THIRD (yes #3) > shared-line customer -- that continet mostly deals with business > accounts. I don't think they've been advertising in the home-user > realm, but I'm sure they'll sell you service (^8 Oh, how could I > forget the coolest part: my packets don't get routed through Qwest!! > Continet has a "partner" who handles that interesting bit of bypassing > that bad boy... Well the bandwidth is great and they got a nice new > bridge to UO, in case anyone uses UO's resources. I should also mention > that I have a buddy who works for PacInfo, and he told me they have some > good deals on DSL service, and that they have much more routing > equipment and bandwidth potential than they are currently using. This > perspective interests me, though I know that cable is more affected that > way... On another (cable) note, a guy in Salem has cable-modem and is > able to get REALLY HIGH SPEEDS, higher than I thought possible; I'm > guessing this is due to maybe not having many other users? Does anyone > know how/where to find the resources that could explain how cable is > mapped out in Eugene? I'd love to know where I would be in the network > graph if at&t DID get their shite together... In the meantime, uh, does > anyone need colocation? ha+ha=haha. > > Jim Darrough wrote: > > >IMHO > > > > ALL DSL is too darn expensive. The cheapest one I found was something > >from ATG which I will eventually subscribe to. The cost is $198 for > >setup (yup, setup) and then $60.00 per month, or a little better if you > >want to sign a contract. > > > > Face it folks, if AT&T ever gets cable modems figured out, that's the > >cheapest way to go. DSL requires too many different businesses to get > >involved (or too big of one, like Qwest). ANY DSL you get other than > >Qwest is going to have charges you may not expect. > > > >my 2c worth... > > > >Regards, Jim Darrough > > > >
