Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[TJ Parker]

> After talking with both companies over the weekend, the bottom
> line on speed is that they are quick to tell me they can
> provide speeds "up to" 1500kbs but they are not willing to talk
> about "down to" some floor beneath which it will not fall.

since this is location dependent, you might talk to others that live near you. better, if you can get hold of one of their technical people (true technical people) they can probably give you better information.

at home we had pacbell (now sbc) dsl since about '99 (and fortunately, got a static ip address back then, which we still have, so no pppoe for me :). but there *are* knowledgeable people there, if you can get to them. for me, since i'm on linux, i can usually bypass the know-nothing types, since nothing they have in their prepared dialogs is applicable to me. but its a coin toss: sometimes i'll be sent off to a knowledgeable techie who actually knows what 'traceroute' is, for example, without looking it up; and other times i'll be sent off to some phone bank in india or somewhere ....