Miles for DSL Service
Oct 18, 2001 | 5:55 am
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Although there might be, I would strongly suggest that miles not be a top factor in picking a DSL provider because there can be very significant differences in quality of service. In all honesty, unless you like switching providers, with all of the shut downs in the DSL industry I'd suggest you just go with your local phone company (who likely isn't going anywhere) if possible.
Oct 18, 2001 | 12:28 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Beckles:
with all of the shut downs in the DSL industry I'd suggest you just go with your local phone company (who likely isn't going anywhere) if possible.</font>
with all of the shut downs in the DSL industry I'd suggest you just go with your local phone company (who likely isn't going anywhere) if possible.</font>
Qwest is hand-balling its DSL over to MSN, forcing current Qwest DSL users to lose all but one of their email addresses immediately the changeover occurs. (Too much effort to put a forwarding entry in for more than one address per person?!?!)
Oct 19, 2001 | 3:39 am
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well....you can get mypoints for signing up with DirecTV DSL through their site, though, of course, i was promised 3K and they didn't post, and you know how they are about answering emails about lost points.
i was even nice about it. fleh. anyways, you can always charge it to a mileage-earning credit card!
i was even nice about it. fleh. anyways, you can always charge it to a mileage-earning credit card!
Oct 19, 2001 | 6:44 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Kremmen:
Unfortunately, that doesn't always work out either.
Qwest is hand-balling its DSL over to MSN, forcing current Qwest DSL users to lose all but one of their email addresses immediately the changeover occurs. (Too much effort to put a forwarding entry in for more than one address per person?!?!)</font>
Unfortunately, that doesn't always work out either.
Qwest is hand-balling its DSL over to MSN, forcing current Qwest DSL users to lose all but one of their email addresses immediately the changeover occurs. (Too much effort to put a forwarding entry in for more than one address per person?!?!)</font>
Anyway, MSN is not deploying a bunch of TELCO infrastructure I'm sure and the situation is similar, you will still have a QWEST DSL line, but the internet access piece will be handled by MSN. The problem is when a company goes out of business and you have to get a new DSL line (if possible), which is not the case with the QWEST/MSN situation I believe, hardware/connection will stay the same (which is the pain in the butt part to get setup usually anyway, not the internet access part).
Heck, at least they let you keep one e-mail address