I'd recommend COX, I had a major issue with BellSouth (in Lafayette area) which left a real bad taste in my mouth - I have also helped neighbors who've had similiar problems in this area (see below if you want a long winded explination of why I don't like BellSouth).
The only issues I've had with COX are: 1) dynamic IP - dyndns, no-ip, etc. makes this easy to fix (I'm using dyndns simply because my hardware will use their service) 2) port 80 block - dyndns' webhop takes care of this 3) port 25 block - no-ip's mail reflector and using COX smtp server as a smartrelay takes care this James ------------------- Had Telocity DSL at house A, DirecTV bought Telocity, during buy out we moved to house B, Telocity had to cancel service at house A and establish new service at house B, everything worked fine at house B for about a month, then DirecTV took over and had a billing mixup (they processed the cancel order again), DSL went down. While clearing up the billing mixup, BellSouth yanked my circuit, after DirecTV got them to hook me back up (all on DirecTV's dime, have nothing bad to say about them besides the mixup which is kind of understandable when two big companies merge their systems - they were even going to give me 3 months free service for the hassel) I was getting extremly slow throughput (so bad it was registering as no connection). Called DirecTV and worked with one of their techs, ended up in a three way call with a BellSouth tech, cleared it up for about 2 hours. This is where the REAL trouble started... NOTE: the original DSL installation had the filter wired on the outside so that there was only one "DSL" jack in the house. After the line went down again I called the DirecTV tech who got in touch with BellSouth again, BellSouth decided to send a tech to check the issue. He came out while I was at work the next day and closed the ticket saying that everything was fine (no notes on the ticket). I got home from work and all the phones were dead, called BellSouth who said they couldn't send anyone until the next day. Got home from work the next day and the phones were still dead, called BellSouth again and was told a tech had checked the problem and his notes stated that he needed to check the inside wiring (would cost $$$ to do this). I actually managed to get the support guy's extension and told him I'd call him back. Started checking the wiring myself, found that the jack that was supposed to be for DSL was actually working as a standard phone jack. After more tracing found out the tech had rewired the NID so that the filtered line went to the DSL jack and the DSL line was going to all the other jacks in the house. Just for the h*** of it, I tried plugging the modem into one of the other jacks to see if there was any DSL service - nothing. Called the support guy back, told him what I found and he told me that since the faulty wiring was on my side of the demarc they would charge me to fix it - argued with him about the fact that it was working until their tech rewired it and that the original problem was caused by a factor outside of the house - him and his supervisor kept insiting that they would have to get my permission for the charges before they could send anyone out and even if they discovered it was not a problem inside there would still be a service charge - told them a few explicitives and told them to NEVER bother sending anyone to my address. Went outside and corrected the NID wiring myself and had to eventually cancel DSL. BellSouth never did get it connected correctly on their end - me and the DirecTV tech traced it from both ends to a piece of equipment in BellSouth's rack but BellSouth insisted it was a wiring issue at the house - funny that the wiring was never a problem until they hooked up the new circuit and that they were able to clear it up the first time without sending a tech. Bryce T. Pier wrote: >Now that I've finally moved into my house and unpacked my computer, I'm >looking for recommendations for an ISP. I'm leaning toward DSL with a >static IP but I'd be happy to hear opinions of Cox's high speed internet >as well. Thanks much! >
