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MacOwner <macowner@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

haha

I've got the blow molded kid's swimming pool sized uverse data only modem. 
It's 12Mb down (for real too) for $29.95 a month for 6 months, then it 
jumps up a bit.

it's pretty solid, for a consumer type service. If I had complaints about 
it when I got it, I forgot them already.