[ale] Bellsouth

[charriglists at bellsouth.net (Calvin Harrigan)]

Jim Moore wrote:
> Notice that others have the DSL Extreme 3M service.  What are your 
> actual download speeds?  I get 90-135K.  They tell me everthing on their 
> side is O.K. Guess I should be thankful. Only had dial-up here for 
> several years and with a 56K modem would get 14.4 on a good day.  They 
> told me all they had to guarantee was 9600baud.  Was on Direcway for 
> three years til they finally put FAST(?) access DSL in.  The $60 a month 
> for Direcway is steep and they limit bandwidth in any one 24 hour 
> period.  Direcway's download speeds weren't heartwarming either.  Seems 
> like someone would deliver what they advertise.
> My rant for the morning. 
>
> Jim
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Those rates seem a little low.  What are you benchmarking against? 
Those numbers are even less then 1.5 mb service.

Calvin