Verizon DSL questions

[dogbert at clue4all.net (Brian J. Conway)]

> And my line is being switched tomorrow morning. Hopefully with the new POP
> I can get a ping of less than 250ms. But they had suspended my billing
> until it got better, so who am I to complain? :-)
> 
> I agree 100% - you can't go wrong with SpeakEasy. Well, Verizon might go
> wrong, but SE sure won't.

Since a few people have mentioned this now, I figured I'd give my
input.  My home DSL in Bedford was switched this morning, and was a very
painless process.  I had ~25-30 ms ping times to my gateway with the NY
PoP and have the same ping times now with the Boston PoP, but am
actually getting the full bandwidth that I had in the past on my
608/128kbps line, being no longer in an overbooked PoP.  I've had my
pings go up to ~250-300 ms a couple of times, but sending an email to
support asking them to reprovision my line (usually dropping it down
from 6 hops to 4) always brought it back to 30 ms to my gateway.  I'd
suggest that, if it hasn't been done already.

Brian J. Conway
dogbert at clue4all.net
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