Naked DSL is simply DSL without dialtone. The DSL pair is sent to your house to connect directly to a modem.

If you are absolutely desperate to find out what your speed might be with DSL “A BALL PARK ESTIMATE” leave me a message with your address and phone number @ 777-8658 I work with frontier and can give you an idea.

I also asked the CS rep why every news station in Rochester is already reporting that its a done deal and I was told they didn’t have any information on that. So its pretty obvious to me that they are trying to keep us customers in the dark as much as possible. I would make a safe bet that if the media didn’t break this story TWC would not have said anything to us and just started charging us come September.

I don’t think you will have any problems either way.

Earthlink gives you six months at $29.95, so they have a new customer discount.

I think the new pricing plan is outrageous and even the people who are considered “lite” users I think will end up paying overages if they sign up for the 20gb plan. People don’t understand how much bandwidth is consumed from normal web browsing. Websites are getting more and more advanced with video, music and hi-rez pictures, it adds up quickly. Not to mention all the video streaming sites and iTunes. If you have teenagers in the house who use facebook, myspace, youtube then expect that 20 or 40gb to go away fast.

If Earthlink doesn’t cap there service i’ll probable switch to them, if they do a cap then Frontier here I come.

http://www.petitiononline.com/twcfedup/petition.html

Has anyone heard microsoft’s response to TWC’s “test”? The amount of money they are gonna loose from xbox live subscribers has the potential to be huge.

Granted, with dsl it matters a lot where you live (quality of phone lines and wiring, distance to central office). But since people mostly write when they have a gripe with their service I thought I put this into perspective with a positive review.

So here it is to sum up my personal experience with Frontier:
1. Support is good (not stellar but responsive)
2. Reliability for me has been great
3. Price/Value is OK (Have a package with unlimited in-state calling for less than $80 including tax.)
4. I get consistent (!) speeds of +5 Mb up and 400Kb down.

Note re speed: As I mentioned before it really depends on where you live and the condition of your wiring. I don’t know of anyone who gets their advertised maximum bandwidth of 10Mb. But I am satisfied with a consistent and reliable +5 Mb. If you are interested, just call them up and give them your address. They should be able to calculate the distance from you to the next CO and give you an estimate on the bandwidth at your location.

I know that some folks have their problems with Frontier, especially those in more rural areas. But I have to say that I have been a happy Frontier customer for the last 5 years.
For the last 4 years I have been telecommuting several days a week, using VOIP and desktop remoting all day long and never had a problem. I can remember only 2 brief outages in 5 years and a period of 1.5 days with severe mail routing latencies on Frontier’s side. Other than that I found Frontier to be very reliable. Like Rottenchester, I get consistently more than 5Mb down and about 400 Kb up (even at 4:00PM when the school kids use up Time Warner’s shared bandwidth . Their pricing is also quite competitive, especially if you take one of the bundle deals.

Secretly, I am waiting for FIOS – but I don’t think Verizon has any plans of bringing FIOS to Rochester.

I’m not sure what we’re going to do. I work from home and need the high speed. I know from my logs that I will regularly come near the 40 GB cap and that’s without doing much online video (we watch a missed show every once in a while), no gaming, no peer to peer stuff. My kids are growing though and all that will be hitting soon.

I’ve written to TWC email address. I also wrote to my NYS representatives. Maybe FiOS will come to Wayne county where we are. I hope!

I switched to Dish and Frontier about 5 years ago for two reasons. First, TWC’s cable service would deteriorate in my neighborhood at about 3 p.m. every day, when the kids got home and started using YouTube, WoW, IM, etc. Second, the TWC DVR was a real piece of crap.

Dish’s DVR is a really nice unit – you can run two TVs off of it and either TV can watch recorded programs. No other DVR has that feature.

I understand that Earthlink may not be as great an option as it seems… it’s obvious to me from a 5 minute online chat with a sales rep that their customer service is even worse than TWC, and TWC is terrible. But no contracts and no immediate plans for a cap may provide a temporary landing area for a mass exodus from TWC. But we can’t stop at RoadRunner. We have to show TWC that we’re not willing to put up with any of their nonsense anymore. No more all-in-one plans. No more Cable TV with TWC. DirecTV and Dish Network offer better programming and better prices. Unfortunately, among other things, TWC does have the advantage of being available everywhere, where satellite is restricted to homeowners and rental units that are not restricted.

This and other areas where TWC has the advantage need to be attacked politically. We can no longer afford to vote for any politician in any election that will turn a blind eye to consumer rights. The lawmakers in the city of Rochester are as much to blame for this monopoly as TWC is, and they need to be stopped. Find out where each of them stand on this and other consumer issues and fight to make their views public. Write them to express your concerns and vote them out of office if they don’t listen. If you live in corporate housing that will not allow satellite dishes, gather support from your neighbors and petition the management to end their policies that support monopolistic companies. Keep badgering the media to ensure that the voice of the consumer is heard.

I leave it up to smarter folks than I, but perhaps we need a voter sponsored initiative to tackle these things. One that ends whatever agreement is keeping Verizon FIOS and other viable options out of Rochester and allowing TWC to exist as the sole reliable ISP. Perhaps we could walk into the election booths someday soon and decide the fate of Time Warner without their say, much like they are deciding ours without any input from us.

It can’t stop at merely finding a viable alternative. Corporations that commit these types of consumer injustices should be driven to fail, the demand they leave behind to be filled by more consumer-aware organizations. This site is a great beginning, however more needs to be done. We should be going door to door, making phone calls, raising awareness and coming together to do something about this.