Covad is actaully decent DSL. We had a 1.1/SDSL in my office for like 3 years. Then, one day, it just went off. We called Covad and they came and told us our loop magically extended another 20,000 feet. Come to find out Verizon was doing some "work" and needed to divert a whole bunch of lines to take another path to the CO, even though the CO is 2 buildings down from us. According to Covad's contract with Verizon, there was nothing anyone could do about it. Funny thing is a Verizon rep showed up about 2 weeks later and said we were in luck, Verizon was not offering DSL in our area. What a bunch of tools.
If you can find a ISP that offers Covad and has a pop in your city, I think its worth the money. The problem with alot of national DSL providers is that they'll have a few POPs spread about around the county. If your not on one of those, you have to be backhauled through the Covad network to one of them which adds some extra latency. Ma On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 17:17, Eric (Deacon) wrote: > > Well, the service is excellent. I get close to the actual kps. > > I have 768/768 SDSL and test out at 640/640. Outage has not > > been a problem, and from other areas that have, they or on it > > quickly. Tech support is great. Now as far as the routing, some > > peeps have complained on this list. They do care about > > latency, and when I talk to them, and " I 'am a gamer and run a > > hlds_l server..." They perk up as the tech's are too, and most > > know Linux to some degree. From a client box perspective, my > > pings or the greatest. Thumbs up from me. > > Cool, guys. Thanks for the info! :) > > -- > Eric (the Deacon remix) > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
