[lug] Q. on AT&T broadband

[Evelyn Mitchell]

* On 2002-07-03 21:44 D. Stimits <stimits at idcomm.com> wrote:
> According to the AT&T web site, my area still does not have AT&T
> broadband available, so it won't give pricing or a number of other
> details. However, their automated advertisement just dialed up the local
> phone and advertised that it just became available (with luck, the web
> site is just outdated). I'm interested in whether anyone here
> likes/dislikes it?

We have it, we really like it.

> 
> I have a current provider, I do not want MSN, but I have heard some
> providers of higher speed services are requiring MSN. Does anyone here
> know the story on that?

We're using ATT as the ISP. It's Qwest that has a contract with MSN.

> Does anyone here with AT&T broadband have static IP and handle your own
> email directly (assumes you own a domain name)?

Yes.

> How does the latency of AT&T broadband compare to 56k (not bandwidth,
> 56k just sucks, but latency is generally good)?

V.good download. Slow upload.


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