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In article <khfon8$vuk$1@news.albasani.net>,
 "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> 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.

did you just cock block bruce?

"bruce and I"

wtf?