I live near Taris and Alameda (between Southern, Brodway, Rural and
McClentock.  I was told by US Worst I could get IDSL for $89 per month
plus $600 startup!!! I think I'll pass - toooo much money!!!

I also tried to hookup with Telocity's SDSL but my line failed the loop
test so that went down the tubes as well.

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Deepak Saxena wrote:

> On May 31 2001, at 14:42, Steve Holmes was caught saying:
> > Yea, This SBB thing is the only game in my part of Tempe, Cox pushed their
> > date for full service out to next year some time and US Worst doesn't even
> > have a clue! let alone a date!
> 
> Where in tempe do you live?  I couldn't get us worst or cox, but got
> covad to give me 144KB IDSL (ISND) really.  It's not as nice as
> SDSL, but it's much much better than a modem.
> 
> ~Deepak
> 
> > 
> > On Thu, 31 May 2001, Steven M. Klass wrote:
> > 
> > > I just have to comment.. ;(
> > > 
> > > I live in southeast gilbert (Pecos/Higley)  I came from cox@home in Chandler 
> > > having switched from Speedchoice (now SBB) in 99.  Cox had it's it's problems 
> > > in that your "pipe" is shared by everyone on your block, so at 6pm good luck 
> > > getting decent bandwidth.  But at least it was consistant.  Specifically, if 
> > > it was slow, it was slow.  If it was fast, you were in for an enjoyable ride. 
> > > The problem with SBB is that it's not consistant.  A freaking wind will blow 
> > > your ride, and you'll be reduced to the speed of a 14.4K modem...  That is to 
> > > me the biggest problem with the whole antenna thing.  It sucks, but when you 
> > > get a few minutes of speed it's fast.  Mind you, I have NEVER seen the speeds 
> > > Durek claimed, and I am skeptical, but it really depends where you live and 
> > > how close you are to the antenna.  
> > > 
> > > Now for the good news.  I am part of a new system by qwest.  DSL is old, but 
> > > VDSL is new and my neighborhood is ready for it.   I get it installed next 
> > > monday.  It has some cool features.  VDSL brings Video (i.e. Cable TV to your 
> > > house too.)  The best feature..  When your phone rings caller id pops up on 
> > > your TV!!
> > > 
> > > For everyones edification - SBB has been to my house several times and I have 
> > > a 1 meter dish sitting on my roof with a clear shot to South Moutain.
> > > 
> > > Later
> > > 
> > > On Thursday 31 May 2001 12:10, you wrote:
> > > > I just got signed up to Sprint Broadband internet service here under the
> > > > impression I could get high download speeds near 100KBPS.  Unfortunately,
> > > > I am only getting transfers in the mid twenty's on a good day.  A test at
> > > > their demo FTP site yielded much higher results but I noticed their test
> > > > file was a nulls.  I'll bet the fact the file is all the same character
> > > > might result in "on the fly" data compression.
> > > >
> > > > I haven't yet tried this on a winblows machine yet but all my friends
> > > > using the service with their winblows are getting speeds much better than
> > > > me.  I'm wondering if linux needs to be tweaked around a bit to speed up
> > > > file transfers?  I tried adding a window value on the route command for my
> > > > network setup but that seems to have no visible results.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone here have any ideas?  It's better than dial-up but still far
> > > > short of expectations.
> > > >
> > > > I will be glad to share whatever config files privately if needs be.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any help.
> > > >
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