How do their prices rate for the DSL, static IPs and such?

Eric

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> The following is my pleasant experience with Onvoy/Covad. If you could
> care less don't read anymore.
> 
> US West told me I couldn't have DSL, for some reason my line failed
> the loop back test. I then discovered they had a digital splitter on my
> line so they could split the one piece of copper running to my house
> into
> 2 phone lines. This is why the loop back was failing. Even though I
> explained
> this to 4 different phone rep's they still would do nothing about it. I
> live well within a mile of my CO.
> 
> I called covad, the rep told me within minutes that dsl was available
> to me and that I was within a mile and a good candidate for dsl. We
> scheduled
> an appointment for installation. That day came and I was at home early
> for the installer. The installer showed up 2.5 hours earlier than agreed
> upon and asked
> if it would be ok to start. I said SURE and he then proceeded to figure
> out the best way to run a high quality phone line from the trunk before
> the splitter to the room in my house where I wanted the dsl. After
> that was installed he tried to use there speedstream dsl router on the
> line. It would not sync up at any dsl speeds from 768k down. He tried 2
> more of the same type of router with no luck. He then went out to the
> truck
> and got a flowpoint 4 port manageable sdsl router and tried that. It
> worked
> rather quickly. So he told me that I was getting a good deal because he
> was going to be leaving me this very expensive manageable router instead
> 
> of the cheapy dumb speedstream. I was very happy with that as I was not
> going to be charged any extra. And to top that off I got that $150 covad
> 
> rebate off the equipment.
> 
> Now that everything is installed and working at 768k/768k I continue
> to get GREAT speeds and low latency for longer than 6 months. For
> example
> in quake 3 the first page of available multiplayer games are usually all
> 
> less than 40-50 ping. I usually play on a 20-30 ping server.
> 
> I run multiple domains, email, quake server, dns, and alot of other
> services. Onvoy even put in a reverse dns entry for my domain in there
> records. Onvoy is treating me like a business fractional T1 account
> without the business cost.
> 
> Very happy with Onvoy/Covad! Very peeved at Qwest(US West)
> 
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Eric F Crist
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