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) > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Eric F Crist System Administrator Ardent-Hacker.net