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[Svpernova09]

Not sure about dry loop, but I've been getting dry humped by providers for years, nothing new >.<

[Drommon]

So these are my options ->

The first is a Dry Loop will be $35 flat fee per month. 24 hour+ down time no dsl. a tech comes out and does the conversion. after the box turns red light for 24 hours then back to green light you have to call the people to re register the internet service with a fictiocious number.

The 2nd, is called Measured Service. $7.28 for the line and a 10x12 promo for internet which is 15$ for the first year and $25 thereafter plus taxes it will be about 31.28 a month. evrything is stripped off the line except local calls. Also every year before the promo expires, you can call back and ask for another promo deal.

For option 2 the tax is listed and there is a hassle every year to call them to reset the promo. But you still get local calls.

Can anyone provides thought/experience on this?

Thank you!

[Rancid-Milk-Man]

Update: AT&T was being difficult so we decided to shop around for dry loop Internet and came to comcast. Comcast is having a deal on 15Mbps cable Internet for only 29.95 for the first year and 49.95 after that. That's double the speed I had with AT&T abd only for a bit more. So if anybody is looking for Internet I'd suggest going with comcast. They're not going to be out until Sunday so in the mean time I'm going to try and fix my computer.

[daviddoran]

I switched from DSL to cable years ago and havent looked back. Not having to deal with "dry loops" made life much simpler.

[Drommon]

Well I live in a rural agricultural town that both pg&e and at&t have a monopoly over. I opted for the dry loop. At the end of the current billing cycle a tech will come out and change the line over. I will be saving $35 a month doing this. I would love to get comcast but it isn't availbale here and even if it was, I am stuck on a contract with at&t for satellite.

[Rancid-Milk-Man]

I switched from DSL to cable years ago and havent looked back. Not having to deal with "dry loops" made life much simpler.

This would be the first time having cable. I'm kind of nervous. I don't know if bandwidth would be a problem for my tv or what. Also for iPhone users. I've learned yesterday AT&T wants to cap the "unlimited" data plan for iPhone users because they can't keep up with the demand. I'm really pissed about this. Anyone deciding to get the iPhone my advice would be to wait until it goes to verizon next year.

Link: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/iphone-caps/

[Svpernova09]

This would be the first time having cable. I'm kind of nervous. I don't know if bandwidth would be a problem for my tv or what. Also for iPhone users. I've learned yesterday AT&T wants to cap the "unlimited" data plan for iPhone users because they can't keep up with the demand. I'm really pissed about this. Anyone deciding to get the iPhone my advice would be to wait until it goes to verizon next year.

Link: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/iphone-caps/

Verizon is also capping their "unlimited" plans and making it a lot more expensive:

http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.p...9/11/09/068255

AT&T and Verizon are both toying with the idea of metered pricing >.<

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../09/30/0131236
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/...-Fees-For-Data

[Drommon]

I got my dry loop installed with no hiccups. Internet was down for only 1 hour. Now I am going to save $35 a month. I went through the house and threw away all those damn hardline crap phones I had all these years. So far I have not had any problems with service (knock on wood).

[Rancid-Milk-Man]

Update: Internet is installed. Downloading at 1Mb/s. Hard Drive arrived last night so I'll probably be installing today. Oh and on a side note... I WON A 55' TV FROM FRIGGIN VIZIO!!!

[Fursphere]

ZOMG GRATZ!
(ss or it didn't happen! lol)