[PLUG] DSL options in Portland

Marvin Kosmal mkosmal at gmail.com
Wed May 19 02:36:36 UTC 2010


All

Just for clarification..

DSL service  is sold by the bit not the Byte..

<The difference is 8>

Correct me if I am wrong..

YMMV


Marvin


On 5/18/10, Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:48 AM, alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
>>
>> Depending on where you live you may be able to get DSL/Fiber with faster
>> speeds. I have been told it is possible to get just DSL without land line,
>> but I think it depends on the carrier.
>
> I'm using Qwest for two "naked" (or stand-alone, or bare) dsl accounts
> -- one in SW and another in Seattle.  If I remember correctly, not
> using a land line saves ~50% of the land-line cost, but they still
> charge something on top of the base DSL price.  What it amounts to is
> $35 flat for the first year, and that bounces up to about $48
> (guessing) for the "price for life".  That covers service up to
> 7.5mbps, if your location supports it.
>
> Every DSL provider I've used since ~2002 has offered DSL without a
> phone line, but there is definitely some self-selection going on ;) (I
> honestly don't recall if I had to search them out or not).
>
> All-in-all, I'm content with Qwest.  It's fast enough for me, latency
> is fine, it's not too expensive, and they aren't Comcast.
>
> --Rogan
> _______________________________________________
> PLUG mailing list
> PLUG at lists.pdxlinux.org
> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
>



More information about the PLUG mailing list