Smoking hot!!!!!DSL for 29.95 month from SBC Ameritech Detroit,MI maybe nationwide

[MrPhelps]

I just talked to Ameritech and the offer is $29.95 per month with a one year contract. Free self install, 768down I forgot up speed.

The modem is yours no more gift cards or money out and they pay you back. One catch is you have to have service with them local and local toll, and $45.00 month phone bill. I pay $45.00 for cable please post your prices and pros and cons of the company and DSL.

BTW I am outside of Detroit MI (The surburbs)

Call 1-800-244-4444 (Ameritech)
You have to have the "$45.00" monthly bill at the time of service, You can drop the extras once the dsl is up and running so this is definatley cheaper.
Time Warner RR= $45.00 for me it would save me $15.00 per month (If the dsl works)

 

[jimmyhaha]

> One catch is you have to have service with them local and local toll, and $45.00 month phone bill

huh...

 

[Timberrlan]

> One catch is you have to have service with them local and local toll, and $45.00 month phone bill

Darn

 

[Rally1]

http://www.dslreports.com

 

[MrPhelps]

I have about a $33.00 a month bill, they said to add some services to get it up to $45.00 for a month then drop the extra services. Its just a way to qualify, I am tempted but I am unsure about the DSL speed....

 

[Mje]

As long as you don't need tech support or reliability. Ameritech is for you!

 

[percboy]

<< As long as you don't need tech support or reliability. Ameritech is for you! >>


Tech support , yea I agree. Reilability, not the case. I`ve had Ameritech in Ohio for 18 months , I`ve been down once since I`ve signed on. Getting 1300k down, 256k up, 24 hours a day.

 

[XFreebie]

so its really $45 a month?!

dont join the sbc monopoly, they are evil

 

[RGN]

<< As long as you don't need tech support or reliability. Ameritech is for you! >>




yup... Its bad.... mkaaaay? The thing is, when it does go down, and it will, you are screwed for like a month. Also, it helps it they don't just cancel your account for no reason. Don't laugh, it happened to several people in this reigon, I was called out to setup cable...

 

[dude]

Please put the regional area in your title...

 

[ricoesco]

I have been using Ameritech/SBC DSL service for the past two years and have not been impressed with the service. Their monopoly leaves me with no other choice for DSL. One major issue is that my upload speed is nowhere near the advertised upload. I should be getting around 24k/s upload, but I'm always getting around 5k/s. They obviously have it capped, but their stupid clause claims that their advertised speeds may not reflect your actual speed, so you can't even complain about that.

I've had many service problems with them, one I'll quickly mention. I live in an apartment building, and their phone tech came to hook up a phone line for an apt in the building. His equipment apparently could not detect the dsl frequency of my line, and so he disconnected it to install the tenant's phone line. To make a long story short, it took a month for ameritech to send a dsl tech to reconnect my line which took him only 5mins when he got here.

If you have other options available to you, stay away from this dsl service. You're probably better off spending a bit more for cable service which seems to be more reliable and definitely faster.

 

[dlaw]

All I heard about this company is only one word -> suck!

 

[manholdup]

DSL from Ameritech SUCKS!!!! I use to do tech support for them and their network is always down. Especially Chicago, IL. & Cleveland, OH. I do not recommend you sign up because you are going to regret it. Don't fall for SBC scams. Hook line and sinker.

For one thing they built the network too small to support all the people on it so service goes down the crapper. I recommend some other type of broadband. Ameritech's tech support is a third party company name Convergys. They are based in Houston, St. Louis, and Florida. Under paid workers that don't care if you get your service up or not. Once it goes down (which is pretty often) they will tell you that they are working on the problem but it never gets resolved. As around, I gaurantee that what I'm saying is the truth. NO BS!!!!

If you decide to get the service anyways, then make sure you ask for an Ethernet Modem or they will automatically send you a USB modem. Then your service will never be up.

 

[dragonlord2112]

Ameritech sucks?



I added voice mail, 3-way calling, call-waiting for my biz line a YEAR ago and am still waiting for it. Its all in a package, so it doesn't matter - I still pay the same amount - I just didn't want the call-waiting (too lazy to push *7something)

I have a question: My apartment has 2 phone lines in it and they come out of a single jack and then to a weird splitter-thing. Could I even get DSL on that?? I'd ask Ameritech, but see above posts about support.
Running double 56k still sucks and my router is getting dusty.

 

[dude]

Weird splitter thingy? Most likely, your using the 4 wires on that line then. So now, your second line is on the yellow and black pair.

They shouldn't have to put it in a splitter thing (2 line splitter). The tech was just lazy and didn't install two lines or at least seperate it into two jacks for you.

As for your voice mail, that may be because voicemail requires setting up additional hardware (such as Meridian) to their systems. They probably just didn't install it yet or can't figure out the software . If they can't get 3 way calling working, they suck. The voice modules/access nodes in the colo should support it as it's standard. They just got some very dumb switch techs that cannot figure out how to enable it or test it correctly. And this can be done off-site so it isn't hard!!!

I'd complain and raise hell if I were you.

 

[Fritzo]

<< As long as you don't need tech support or reliability. Ameritech is for you! >>



I've had Ameritech DSL for over a year right now, and I can honestly say it has been extremely reliable. I've had two outages in the last year, and they only lasted for an hour or two. The speed was advertised as 768/128, but it's closer to 800/130. The only complaint I have is that their tech support is clueless. I work for a national dialup ISP, and it seems thier techs make up reasons for problems. They use UUNet as their main Internet backbone, and there was a routing problem on their network in Chicago going to Amazon.com (tracerts would show your request would just bounce back and forth between two routers in Chicago.) I called their support, and the guy thought I was nuts because he couldn't believe I could see that type of information. He then gave me the old "It works for me" line, and thought I was typing amazon.com wrong :disgust: Soooooo, I tried explaining to him that since he's in Florida and I'm in Ohio, he probably wasn't hitting the Chicago router. Again, he basically told me I didn't know what I was talking about and the conversation ended. My neighbors and myself (and I assume the rest of the tri-state area using Ameritech DSL) couldn't get to Amazon.com, Target.com, ToysRUS.com, etc for THREE DAYS. Finally, I called my contact and UUNet through work and told him about the problem. It was fixed in 20 minutes I should send them a service bill heheheh

Anyway....service is fast and reliable for me, but support stinks.

 

[guaraguao]

<< As long as you don't need tech support... >>



That goes for BellSouth, and Telocity/DirectTv... A call to their tech support amounts to "Have you rebooted your modem? Are you sure? Try rebooting your modem." DTV is solid though, no complaints lately.

 

[jaykay]

I agree with most of the comments about Ameritech. I'd recently disconnected their DSL service after 15 months (of problems and crappy USB modem) and switched to another provider. I'll think about it if they give their DSL for free without any commitment.

 

[trippy1976]

I have Ameritech. I kittied up for the big line 1500 down/ 386 up. It's $60 a month, but you have to do the whole gift card garbage. Good thing I read this post... I had forgotten about that!!! Probably part of the scam. Leave it up to us guys to forget about getting their $$ back and they get to keep it. Anyway, I don't have that much experience with reliability but I found the tech support to be quite good actually. The guys who work the lines were having a bad day or something when they came to hook me up. I went away on a week business trip, came home and DSL was supposed to be active. Not only was DSL not active, but all my phone lines had been disconnected!! Turns out the DSL guy came out, hooked me up, tested the line, and forgot to plug my house back into the line out to the pole. Something in that mysterious gray box.

Anyway, I found that @ midnight and got a call in to repairs at 9am, they were at my house and had it fixed by 11am. Then I talked to tech support for a while because DSL did not work. Turns out it's a new house and I didn't know I had an alarm system! Once I unhooked that - whala. But they spent the better part of an hour on with me, I waited 2 minutes on hold to get to them, and they had scheduled a tech to come to my house that afternoon when it looked like we weren't getting anywhere. In general - I've been impressed with them so far.

I was quite dissappointed in the whole being unplugged thing - but hey ... even the best of us have those days. How many times have you fiddled with your computer, put it all together and then foudn you left the cable disconnected from the hard drive? I've done it a couple times in my life. I'll admit it.

Anyway, back to the deal... I like their service. BUT... does the $45 /include/ your phone service, or you have to pay $45 in phone service to get the cheap DSL? If it's the latter, I'd just go for the $60 a month 1.5/386 line. It's very sweet. Anyway, that's my advice.

Maybe if you're calling to ask tech support about the status of their backbones, ping times, etc. they'll be clueless. But if you're just looking for setup support (which, apparently based on the posts for reliability is all you'll likely need from them.) they've got it down. You really shouldn't have any problems anyway.



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<< As long as you don't need tech support or reliability. Ameritech is for you! >>


Tech support , yea I agree. Reilability, not the case. I`ve had Ameritech in Ohio for 18 months , I`ve been down once since I`ve signed on. Getting 1300k down, 256k up, 24 hours a day. >>

 

[coons10]

Ameritech is so bad that the PUCO in Ohio has levied fines against Ameritech for failure to make repairs and install new service in a timely manner. Fines in the 7 figure range if that tells you how bad they are.

I avoid them like the plague.
:|

 

[noxipoo]

ameritech dsl sucks and this deal isn't hot at all, you need to use all ameritech services for dsl. get cable or dsl from someon else.

in chicagoland, i recommend earthlink/covad dsl or AT&T cable service.

 

[eviltommy]

i was thinking about switching from con-cast here in troy. i gave my girlfriend the go to get it(ameritech dsl) in her apartment in ann arbor, when your in college $30 a month is alot prettier than $55 (cable modem monthly without cable tv service)

 

[StageLeft]

That's a farkin expensive phone bill at $45

 

[Caminetto]

Proposed Ameritech monthly bill $45 + $30 = $75 ------ for 768down 128 up.
My present monthly bill from Ameritech $15 + $45 (RoadRunner) = $60 ------ for 2000 down 384 up.

 

[TheBadMan]

Just wanted to throw in my 2¢ and say that I used to work DSL tech support for SBC, and the Ameritech service was always down, and their customer support was pretty much total garbage. I would seriously consider looking into a local ISP rather then go with them, I think you will regret it if you sign up for Ameritech.