WOOOOOOOOOO FREAKIN’ HOOOOOO!!! THIS SCREAMS!!!
And could the installation be any easier? Plug it in. Set the TCP/IP control panel to “Ethernet - DHCP” restart. Done.
Sweet, isn’t it? I’ve had Verizon DSL for the past 6 months or so, and I couldn’t be happier. I got an added bonus when I reformatted and switched over to Windows XP Pro from the 98 I had when I started the service: I didn’t need to reinstall the ISP software, XP could handle everything all by itself. I just had to tell it my username and password.
Ahh, I’ve always said my high speed internet connection was the best purchase I’ve made this side of my king size bed. I’ve got cable, but I understand the sheer joy of DSL as we moved from dial-up to DSL at work awhile back. Congrats and enjoy.
My thoughts exactly when I got it…its as fast as accessing my hard drive most of the time.
If that’s true, you need a newer harddrive. 
Or tell me who the heck your provider is!
Lucky bastards. I’m stuck with BellSouth PPPoE DSL. My modem is USB and it really is a piece of crap. 75% of the times I reboot, I lose my connection and have pull the modem’s plug for 30 seconds and reboot again. And, of course, I have to use DuN to give the damn thing my username and password.
I used to have a nice DSL gateway that went right in to my NIC. No configuration, no nothing. Simplicity. And you know what? IT WORKED! Every time. All the time. I never had to call tech support. Then the company stopped providing DSL service, so I got stuck with BellSouth.
I’ve spent well over twelve hours one the phone with tech support in the last two months trying to get the damn thing to work right. It’s never very encouraging when the techs say “Wow! I’ve never seen that problem before. Let me write it down for future reference.”
Why don’t you try a third-party DSL provider, like Roadrunner, neutron star?
Go forth and enjoy thine pornography.
The thread title looked to me like I got Ds !!! As in you were really excited to get the grade of D on some school work.
I have Verizon for DSL and I have no complaints.
Well except that I have to pay for it. I want it to be free.
Like I said, I’m stuck with BellSouth. Before DirecTV stopped providing DSL, those two were the only options. Now BellSouth is it. Believe me, I’ve checked around. If I lived in Baton Rouge, I could get a DSL provider with 1.5Mbps downloads and an impressive 768kbps for uploads for $50 a month.
Also, Roadrunner is a cable company, not a DSL provider, isn’t it? Cable is out of the question, too, because our company (Cox) caps both uploads and downloads at a lower speed than BellSouth. Well, now they do, anyway. I had them back before they went bidirectional. I could only upload at a paltry 14.4kbps, but my download speeds were amazing. I’m talking up to and over FIVE TIMES the speed my DSL is capped at now (1.5 Mbps)! You haven’t lived until you’ve downloaded a file at 600 KB/second. 
Back then, I didn’t think my Internet access would be slower and more problematic in 2003 than it was in 1998. Unfortunately, I was wrong.
Ok, since my girl works for Verizon, we’re going to be getting it’s DSL in June. Any complaints, or advice?
I’m really looking forward to all that bandwidth. Of course, the SD doesn’t take much bandwidth, so I’m not sure what I’m gonna do with it all… hehehehe…
I thought it was about D’s too. Weird. Well, there’s only three things high bandwidth is good for: music, games, and music.
No fair. I want DSL. You’re mean…
Not true… (unless you’re talking about just downloading them) games don’t thrive on high bandwidth, they thrive on low latency… two very different things, alas. I had 1.2mB DSL with horrifically unstable latency (due to an access concentrator), and it was unplayable for most first-person shooters. 
Busted! 
/said in her best Scarlett O’Hara voice
As God is my witness, I will never use dial-up again!
We’ve had Verizon DSL for almost 3 years now. Currently we have 5 computers connected via hubs/routers/switches (with plenty of room to spare) I have no complaints other than the cost.
I want DSL dammit! All I keep hearing is soon, soon, soon. For two years now, soon. I’m beginning to think somebody is lying to me.
[sub]I also want to go forth and be pornographic with Homebrew.[/sub]
I had 1.5MB DSL back in 2000. When we moved, our new home was in an area that didn’t support DSL for a whole YEAR <gasp!> and I had to go back to dial up. I seriously considered eating a bullet after the first day. No wait, thats not true… I felt like killing someone and… no, wait, thats not true either. Well, it just plain sucked. It’s true that once you have a fat pipe it’s almost impossible to go back.
A few months back Telus said I could get DSL in my neighborhood again. I did. All is well and I am once again sane. No, wait…
I also, thought it said “I just got Ds !!!”
Large amounts of bandwith good. What is really nice, is if you have a laptop, get a wireless setup going at home. I have one, and it is so nice being able to browse the net at cable speed, without wires.
Having had cable for a while, there is no way that I could possibly go back and be sane.