Personally, I had a lot of bad experience with verizon through the
years. Bumping my service features and cost up at random frequent times
without permission. After a lightning strike hit their equipment it
took them 3 weeks to replace it after I spent about 24 hours in total on
the phone with them, mostly waiting in line. Thank God I had a speaker
phone. Verizon mileage may vary I suppose. In my opinion, if there is
a Satan, he is closely connected to Verizon in some way. Verizon lite
(I forget what it was called) was about the same as my current
Roadrunner Lite service in speed as well as I can recall. 90KB/s
download speed limit seemed to be my cap, the same as with Roadrunner
Lite. Upload speed was extremely limited. I think 15KB was my maximum
upstream transfer rate. Roadrunner lite may be the same I guess, I
don't know a quick way to test it. I got rid of Verizon altogether
including their landline service as soon as I heard about Magicjack.
Only $40 per year for internet landline functionality. err, or was it
$20? Anyway, it's working well, but you need a Windows box running 24/7
unfortunately. Doing that freed me up to use something other than the
phone company DSL service, so I switched to Roadrunner Lite, paying
$15/mo for the first year!. So far very happy.
> I have the lowest DSL service verizon offers and don't have any trouble.
> I was going to switch to a higher service for netflix streaming but
> don't want to be paying for false bandwidth.
> Scott
>
> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 04:45 -0500, Pete Theisen wrote:
>
>> Hi Everybody!
>>
>> So today, after a month I *finally* got to speak to a verizon tech. He
>> checked my equipment and found that I had full speed service, and that
>> is my problem.
>>
>> Verizon doesn't have enough backbone access to service everyone they
>> have sold service to so they randomly disconnect the top and middle tier
>> users to save bandwidth. Saves them a bundle which shows up as
>> management salaries and perks. Works for the guys at the top.
>>
>> He said if I cut my service to low tier, about 767 or thereabouts, I
>> would not notice the speed difference and they don't disconnect the
>> little guys so on average I would have *more* access.
>>
>> Thoughts? Comments? So any of you use the low speed verizon?
>>
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