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Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
>barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> wrote:

>>So what should I be paying for 2.5mb speeds, on DSL?

>Well speedtest.net isn't going to help with that unless you are paying for
>6mb service. In that case you can request being reduced to 3meg service.

>But if you are paying for 3 and getting 2.5mb, sucks to be you. They
>consider that acceptable.

>As far costs, use a dartboard, they'll charge what you'll pay.

>General rule of thumb, nearly all of them have the initial 14.95 to 19.95
>for the first six months or year, then back to "the normal rate", which
>before you ask, doesn't exist.

>At that point you can usually threaten to leave which then they'll extend
>the offer or kick it up a few bucks. Then in six months or a year, wash,
>rinse and repeat.

>A freind of mine on the at&t dsl (not the fake uverse) is paying $24.95 for
>the 3.0mb service (he can't get 6mb). This was after the 12 months of 14.95
>then it jumping to $34.95. One phone call later, they cut 10 bucks off.

barb, just so you know, what Bruce and I have called fake U-verse has
to do with AT&T refusing to provision DSL to new subscribers, except as
U-verse, in certain U-verse areas in which they haven't provisioned any
television service. That's what I've got.

It's still DSL, but it's done in a completely different way to it didn't
work with the DSL modem I'd already bought from them.