Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Centurytel DSL

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 7/9/07, nowlind <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> I have had the DSL/long distance package for a while now and have been
> happy with it.  The one thing that I do not like is this:
> I am planning on buying a house the the Columbia area soon and am
> looking out online to get prices for areas.  I am not locked in on any
> area and have found some in my range just outside the city limits, so I
> called CenturyTel to find out if DSL service was available in the area
> and was told that the only way I could find out is if I had a phone
> number in the area.  I even asked if the local office would know or have
> a map and was told no.  Seems a little odd that a company would not know
> what areas service is available in.

Not really. We're talking about DSL, which is notoriously rather
sensitive to a bunch of equipment that may or may not be set up
between you and the main office. If I were CenturyTel, I wouldn't
certify anything was likely to have DSL until I had tested the circuit
and evaluated what, if any, equipment would have to be upgraded
between you and it. I mean, it's not just CenturyTel that does this...
One of the reasons that Verizon decided to bite the bullet and go all
optical in the denser metro areas was that they didn't really even
have the bandwidth to get everybody a guarantee of DSL, much less
anything fancier. The good news is that we get 5 Mb/s into the house
for less than $40 and it is entirely bomb-proof; it has *never* been
down in the year we've been here. Not once.

jking


> Daniel Nowlin
> DataCenter
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>
>
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> > I just switched to Centurytel DSL, and so far my experience has been
> > awesome.  I think they are investing a lot in new equipment and
> > infrastructure in my area (which is Southwest Columbia along Scott
> > Blvd).  Along with a three month trial digital TV, they gave me a
> > router for DSL which seems really well designed.  As well as 4
> > ethernet ports (one of which is used by the TV), it has wireless
> > included.  The DHCP can be programmed so that it assigns a fixed LAN
> > IP address by MAC number (something I always wanted in the store
> > bought routers), and it also has its own DNS server that automatically
> > extracts the hostname of the attached computer and adds it into its
> > own LAN DNS address book. You can read about the router at
> > http://2wire.com/index.php?p=106 - it is the 3800HGV - it is so new
> > that they haven't yet written it's manual.
> >
> > I also very much like their digital TV.  It has had some reliability
> > problems, but the support service has been very responsive, and my
> > guess is that it is teething problems because the equipment is so new.
> >
> > Stephen
> >
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