🚀 go-pugleaf

Guys
  Thanks for all the informative feedback, especially regarding
Ameritech & Flashcom :-C  Yes I am aware of their unsavory reputations
but very few of the high bandwidth providers have got their act
together yet.

   Apparently my neighbors who have obtained Telocity have not been
able to get more than 400 Kbps downstream, perhaps due to noice or self-
wired lines. Otherwise, I would probably go for Telocity since the
installations seems to be much faster than the other 'hype' DSL
providers.

> 3. How frequent is downtime? 8-12 hours a week? Any dial-up backup?
Can anyone give average numbers? Anyone run a Perfmon /netstat style
logger to measure monthly uptime? Are any such stats available on the
net?

> I also have friends using Media-one in Hoffman Estates, they had
>problems with really slow downloads at night and packet losses,

  I'm in Mt Prospect. That is former TCI territory right? So which NW
burbs were former Media1 and which were TCI? Anyone know whether the
former competitors have combined resources or as ATT just messed things
up more?

   Houmi, I just mentioned DirectPC in passing, since I doubt it is a
viable option. Nevertheless you piqued my curiousity when you mentioned
that DirectPC throttled bandwidth when you downloaded 'too much' - what
exactly does that equate to? 2 GB a month?

Best regards

adoh


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