DSL Installed

We got DSL.

Installation/setup/etc took about 2 weeks, including the phone line. Pretty darn impressive.

Haven’t had a chance to move everything over so we’re still mostly using the cable connection. Soon we’ll be on a fatter upload pipe, site should be more responsive. Here’s my log of events:

10/27/2003

Ordered SBC phone service, install scheduled for 10/29/2003, 1-5pm
Ordered SpeakEasy.net DSL service, mentioned 5 days after the phone install my service would be going.

03:30 PM 10/29/2003

SBC Phone service installed and working.

04:00 PM 10/30/2003

Called, the address is verified, I’m just waiting now.

??:?? PM 11/1/2003

called again, got second IP address. changed to Gamer account. still waiting.

11/6/2003

MOdem arrive. Connected it, tried to connect to the net, but no luck.
Called Speakeasy, they said (after a few tests) the loop would be ready at
midnight or sometime tomorrow (11/7). We’ll see.

11/7/2003

Still not working, called and the guy said they had until end of business today to complete it. I’ll keep trying and call after midnight.

11/8/2003

Shortly after midnight it was still not working. Called up Speakeasy and they said there was something not setup on their end. He put me on hold and fixed it and I was up and running. Ran 2 tests on dslreports.com, second one seemed more accurate (first one was testing the connection _to_ speakeasy so it wasn’t leaving their ‘network’) which gave me: 846/599 kbps. The download is pretty slow as i’m supposed to get 1.5Mbits, but the upload is AWESOME compared to the 90kbps we usually get.