Okay folks, a few things:
Signed up Last Saturday May3rd.
Told ?Activation? date would be next Monday, May 12th, and I would qualify for 1.5Mb, for the 29.95 rate. Got the Hardware yesterday, and hooked it all up, but of course just got the blinking green light on the DSL modem, no dice for connection. Today round 2pm I noticed a sold green light. SWEET. But here is were things got a bit weird. I tried using the phone, but I had no dial tone for about an hour, and I tried to set up the Verizon software but it would stall at the end?? So I decide to wait a while, then I call tech support to figure it all out. I spoke to a nice guy and we installed just WinPOET and that?s it. None o that other Verizon crap, that I?ll never know what I didn?t get. Then I was walked through account setup n stuff and we tested out my line initially VERRY DISSAPOINTED. But, a few more things to add:
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www.Dslreports.com SAVED My Ass!! Seriously The initial line test showeed only speed of about 400k. WAAY below advertised speed. So I rememberd when I had DSL 3 years ago and how DSL a free applet called DRTCP you can download for free, which automatically enter in your desired resgistry RWIN and MTU (which for those of you out there who don?t know what that is, Windows controls how long it waits for your DSL signal) settings, instead of you having to do it manually. A real time saver.
2. So once I made my changes I played with my RWIN & MTU #?s for a while and now my download is 1520K a sec with a Transfer rate of usually 179K/sec.
3. Seriously, I highly recommend dslreports.com, and the Verizon tech support guy also had me use
www.toast.com for speed testing; its great.
Well That?s it, and GOODBYE to AOL FOREVER, now I can post legit here for good. Will everyone welcome me back. Okay, now I?ll shut up. Now I really have some work to do, I have to setup my ?little? network here at home with my RP614NA Netgear Router.
If anyone has any questions/comments bout all o this, please feel free to badger or PM me or post in reply
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