[KLUG Members] RE: DSL

[Adam Williams]

> For (I think) $30.00 a month I get 256K each way, and they don't care if 
> I run servers as long as it's non-commercial.  Reliability has been 
> pretty good, and a couple of calls I made went to a fairly knowledgeable 
> human after 10 minutes or so on hold.  I do have occasional slowdowns 
> from "far end CRC errors" that might be related to a wiring problem at 
> my house, so until/unless I've ruled that out I can't blame TDS for it. 

I've known two other TDS customers in Grand Rapids who experience the
same line error issues;  TDS blamed the loop.  It seems odd that the
loop (in roughly the same neighborhood) is good for 1.5Mbps clean for me
(an SBC customer) and chunky for a 256Kbs TDS customer.  So choose
between an SBC conspiracy theory or whatever DSLAM equipment TDS is
using.  I looked at TDS but at the time they offered no static IP
options that weren't EXORBIDANTLY price (over a year ago now).