http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2000/11/27/story1.html

~jacque

Jason J wrote:
> 
> I pay $70/month for the line and the service.
> 
> I sure hope they dont drop my dsl service from what Jacque just said.
> 
> Eric F Crist wrote:
> 
> > 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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