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Posted By: pete In Response To: Cable vs. DSL -- Was I stupid? (MaaMaw)
Tuesday, 18 April 2006, at 2:40 p.m.
Check this out.
In my home / office I have the complete COX deal. 4 phone lines, TV and Internet.
At the mall, I have tried to get cox in, but they could not get together with mall management, so I was stuck with Verizon. Business line @ $75 a month.
One day I get a call from a guy saying he can give me what I've got with Verizon for about $ 20 less per month, so I tell him to go for it. They are just a reseller, don't own anything, the only people who come in the mall are still verizon, but I'm paying $ 56 a month, instead of $ 75.
So, things changed a bit to where I have to be at the mall more than I had been, so I wanted something where I could get online. I had an old 486 for the point-of-sale/cash register, and the modem was great for using PCAnywhere to download files at night, but it was so lacking memory that I could hardly get on the net and keep the cash register going.
So, the computer is gone and I have something decent, but still needed some speed. With the last bill I got from my phone supplier they mentioned having DSL. So, I give them a call. $ 39.95 for a commercial hookup! Try that with Verizon! Of course, it's still all Verizon lines, equipment, everything but the billing.
Free DSL modem (actually $ 200, but get a $ 200 rebate), free setup, no extra costs at all, just $ 39.95 a month. Modem came UPS, I had the whole deal going in less than a half hour, sharing the line with a phone modem, a phone and a card swiper, all working fine.
One major problem. The support sucks. All I wanted to do was get the email setup, address, etc. Took 2 days. Then nobodby knew how to set up Outlook to take incoming from the 20 or so accounts I have and send it all out on the new DSL setup. No thanks to them, after a couple more days of trial and erro, I got it working on my own. Except for the email, everything went smoothly.
Anyhow, the company is Spectrotel. They are in NJ, I do not know if they are on the left coast.
I'm not a reseller, not an affiliate, just a user. Here's a link -
http://www.spectrotel.com/
If you need email help, I'll work for $ 25 an hour. :)
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