For those of you still on dial up, you have no excuse now!

[lokiju]

$10 DSL

I did a search but didn't see this posted.

 

[TravisT]

Sounds like a great deal... the problem isn't that most people do not want to make the switch, a lot of people probably have a problem with their location. I know my uncle uses satellite because he can not get DSL or Cable.

 

[LS20]

figure in landline, and the hassle of att being the worst company in the world

 

[jhayx7]

Another quote from the article:

Another concession to the FCC is yet to come: a plan for DSL that doesn't require local phone service. AT&T has another six months to introduce that option, which should cost at most $19.95 per month.

:wood;

 

[JS80]

but what about my @aol.com email address?!?!?

 

[tatteredpotato]

Not available in my area.

Is that a good enough excuse for ya?

 

[hdeck]

Originally posted by: LS20
figure in landline, and the hassle of att being the worst company in the world

if you are on dial up you already have a landline.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: hdeck

Originally posted by: LS20
figure in landline, and the hassle of att being the worst company in the world

if you are on dial up you already have a landline.

QFT.

I meant this more towards those that say DSL is to expensive, etc..

Like my in-laws that were on dial up until a few months ago.

 

[QueBert]

I wouldn't sign up if it was FREE. A friend was having problems with his DSL, I called for him and spent awhile on the phone with India Tech people. They said there was a line problem and he would transfer me to the department that takes care of scheduling a tech to come out and fix it. I was on hold for like 10 minutes "sir I'm sorry but that department is closed for the day, I will put a note for them to call you" they called the following day, and didn't get an answer, no machine either. So they did the logical thing and canceled the ticket on his account. I called back the next weekend to find this out, they knew the problem still existed but wern't going to make any attempts after the first and only time they tried to contact him.

finally somebody comes out, they do whatever the hell it is they do, leave and my friend tells me that night "my DSL still doesn't work right" (it drops about 13% of all packets randomly) Now I gotta call them again for him and b!tch them out. He said the second the lady left it wasn't working, so it's obvious she knew she couldn't fix it and decide just to leave.

dialup is better than DSL from AT&T, I can't speak for AT&T dialup but if it's anything like their DSL I'd never touch it either.

 

[Kirby]

I would kill for DSL or cable at my house.

 

[hdeck]

Originally posted by: QueBert
I wouldn't sign up if it was FREE. A friend was having problems with his DSL, I called for him and spent awhile on the phone with India Tech people. They said there was a line problem and he would transfer me to the department that takes care of scheduling a tech to come out and fix it. I was on hold for like 10 minutes "sir I'm sorry but that department is closed for the day, I will put a note for them to call you" they called the following day, and didn't get an answer, no machine either. So they did the logical thing and canceled the ticket on his account. I called back the next weekend to find this out, they knew the problem still existed but wern't going to make any attempts after the first and only time they tried to contact him.

finally somebody comes out, they do whatever the hell it is they do, leave and my friend tells me that night "my DSL still doesn't work right" (it drops about 13% of all packets randomly) Now I gotta call them again for him and b!tch them out. He said the second the lady left it wasn't working, so it's obvious she knew she couldn't fix it and decide just to leave.

dialup is better than DSL from AT&T, I can't speak for AT&T dialup but if it's anything like their DSL I'd never touch it either.

i've had AT&T DSL in houston for over a year now and haven't had any problems. speeds have always been fantastic & haven't experienced much down time at all.

 

[allisolm]

Originally posted by: lokiju
$10 DSL

I did a search but didn't see this posted.

It's such a hot deal that it's been posted in

- wait for it -

Hot Deals!


Great price but not available where I live.

 

[TheKub]

All the AT&T bashing...

I did have some difficulty first getting the line in my apartment to work but most of the problems were handled by the leasing office. All I had to do was tell them it didn't work.

Get decent speed for an ok price. No complaints since its been turned on.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: BlameCanada
Not available in my area.

Is that a good enough excuse for ya?

Seriously. No one is on dialup to save money...around here you have to pay like half a penny a minute for local measured usage up to about $25. In the end you're paying like $40-45 for dialup. People don't choose dialup...they end up on it.

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: lokiju
$10 DSL

I did a search but didn't see this posted.

So, just because DSL is $10 now, that magically makes everybody be within 15,000 wire feet of the CO with no load coils or muxes? Even in areas where there's no DSLAM or other infrastructure in place for DSL? Schweet.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: QueBert
I wouldn't sign up if it was FREE. A friend was having problems with his DSL, I called for him and spent awhile on the phone with India Tech people. They said there was a line problem and he would transfer me to the department that takes care of scheduling a tech to come out and fix it. I was on hold for like 10 minutes "sir I'm sorry but that department is closed for the day, I will put a note for them to call you" they called the following day, and didn't get an answer, no machine either. So they did the logical thing and canceled the ticket on his account. I called back the next weekend to find this out, they knew the problem still existed but wern't going to make any attempts after the first and only time they tried to contact him.

finally somebody comes out, they do whatever the hell it is they do, leave and my friend tells me that night "my DSL still doesn't work right" (it drops about 13% of all packets randomly) Now I gotta call them again for him and b!tch them out. He said the second the lady left it wasn't working, so it's obvious she knew she couldn't fix it and decide just to leave.

dialup is better than DSL from AT&T, I can't speak for AT&T dialup but if it's anything like their DSL I'd never touch it either.

I feel your pain on this, I really do.

I support 300ish offices and their broadband connections for the company I work at and the majority of them are through AT&T.

There is not a company out there with crappier customer service IMO.

 

[Beev]

Yeah, my mom CANNOT get cable or DSL. She lives too far out in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Bryophyte]

DSL is not available for us because our phone lines are too crappy. Seriously, I get 24kbps dialup at the fastest, and usually under 21.6. Add to that that I am stuck with Qwest for phone. And no cable out here in the sticks, and we get almost no cell signal whatsoever, so normal wireless is out of the question. Our choices are limited, currently, to satellite for high-speed internet, and the latency issues would probably prevent my spouse from using it to telecommute, so we'd have to foot the bill ourselves instead of getting his employer to reimburse us for it. Until we can get 802.16 wireless up here, or satellite internet that either works for us or isn't hundreds of dollars to set up along with steep monthly fees, we're stuck on very, very slow dialup.

I have plenty of excuses. :|

Edit: typo

 

[daveshel]

Originally posted by: LS20
figure in landline, and the hassle of att being the worst company in the world

Nope, Qwest is still in business.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: hdeck

Originally posted by: QueBert
I wouldn't sign up if it was FREE. A friend was having problems with his DSL, I called for him and spent awhile on the phone with India Tech people. They said there was a line problem and he would transfer me to the department that takes care of scheduling a tech to come out and fix it. I was on hold for like 10 minutes "sir I'm sorry but that department is closed for the day, I will put a note for them to call you" they called the following day, and didn't get an answer, no machine either. So they did the logical thing and canceled the ticket on his account. I called back the next weekend to find this out, they knew the problem still existed but wern't going to make any attempts after the first and only time they tried to contact him.

finally somebody comes out, they do whatever the hell it is they do, leave and my friend tells me that night "my DSL still doesn't work right" (it drops about 13% of all packets randomly) Now I gotta call them again for him and b!tch them out. He said the second the lady left it wasn't working, so it's obvious she knew she couldn't fix it and decide just to leave.

dialup is better than DSL from AT&T, I can't speak for AT&T dialup but if it's anything like their DSL I'd never touch it either.

i've had AT&T DSL in houston for over a year now and haven't had any problems. speeds have always been fantastic & haven't experienced much down time at all.

that's good to hear, trust me when I tell you if you ever had to deal with the tech support for a serious issue you would change your tune. They're crappy on the level they provide piss poor troubleshooting. And service speed? Let's just say I use to work at a small store that had their Business DSL package, which essentially is the same DSL they just charge more for it. It went down, was clearly their fault so we call to schedule a tech to come fix the line. They told my boss it would be 6 days! his Western Union and ATM ran off the DSL. It's not uncommon for them to take up to a week to get a person to come out and fix it. How many thousands of dollars did he loose in those 6 days? probably a lot. I guess there's some comfort in knowing if he didn't have the Business package it might have taken even longer to get a tech out!


I'd be fine with them if I never needed support, but in my area DSL is the pits.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: allisolm

Originally posted by: lokiju
$10 DSL

I did a search but didn't see this posted.

It's such a hot deal that it's been posted in

- wait for it -

Hot Deals!


Great price but not available where I live.

Supposedly not active yet. Try after the 26th.

 

[OutHouse]

We're sorry. AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet is not available in your area.

i dumped my wildblue internet last month for wireless broadband. no dsl service is available at all in my country ass town.

 

[jadinolf]

Seems like everyone knows about this except AT&T.

 

[DrPizza]

OP is an idiot for believing that cost was the only factor for people having dial-up. I was going to call him an idiot about 3 hours ago, but a storm moved through, disrupting my satellite broadband.

Okay, everyone, time for you to use your imaginations... Imagine me reading the thread title, muttering out loud, "what an idiot" and flipping the bird at the OP.

 

[AlienCraft]

AT&T cs sux . they are still calling the mom trying to find out how she likes her dsl, why there's no activity on her account. Because your lousy service won't connect that's why, I guess they ignore the disconnect order.