Review by kubus 
UPDATED: 25 days ago
member for 8.9 years, 856 visits, last login: 1 days ago
 Irwin,Westmoreland,PA
 $35 per month (12 month contract)
 about 14 days
 Verizon
 "Works as advertised"
 "nothing"
 "Good value and better then my previous ISP - Comcast"
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Did a self install, connection was on before the ready date, which made me happy. Wish they would let me know before hand that it takes up to 3 weeks to actually get connected, but it worked in 2 weeks, so I guess is sort of mid point.
Connection speed is as advertised 1492/374, slightly under, but close enough to call it exact.
I got the Westel wireless hub from VZ, works fine, however I didn't try the wireless yet, no need for it at this point.
I didn't use the Tech Support, so the rating is based on CSR that I placed the order with.
The open relay blocking is bad, I'm watching the thread in VZ forum on it. I just had one of my friends forward me the return e-mail so I'll be contacting VZ about the blocking.
UPDATE: 1/18/06
I downgraded to the lower 768/128 plan as cost saving measure. At this time, VZ DSL is probably the best value out there. I really don't notice a difference in the speed until I download a large file. E-mail attachments (3-5mb) take few seconds longer, windows updates download just fine. I play BF1942 and I don't notice any major lags or differences either.
I'm not sure if the e-mail blocking is still there. I switched over to yahoo and the only e-mails going to verizon mail are the official stuff.
One stupid thing about VZ is their security package, that they tried to push on me. I had e-mails coming about it almost daily for about a month after the upgrade. Now I get snail mail cards to download it. No thanks, doing just fine on my own.
Update 4/12/07
The price went up to $17, however it is still a good value. No problems to report, except cat chewed on the cat5 and had to be replaced.. cable that is.
I've since started using wi-fi and that is also working pretty good, although the Westel range is not that great, but I can still sit on the porch and get very good signal.
Update 02/08
I had to move up to 3/768 level as uploading pictures was painfully slow. When you have a newborn, that's pretty much all you will do, upload pictures or send them through e-mail. Upgrade was painless, and took about a week, all done at CO. I had some initial problems with speed, but it turned out that one of my cats chewed through the wire. Took me 15min to fix and speed was up. Last I checked the upload was around 2.5, download over 700, so pretty close and good enough for me.
So now I have 3 years and counting of solid performance from VZ.
Oh an the cat now has 2 strikes... but I'm not sure which one, so I guess both will end up as General Tso Chicken one day.
Update 11/09
Make that 5 years and counting without a problem. Even the Westel modem is still chugging along. I did use the wireless for a while but then my laptop crapped out. The Wi-Fi worked OK at best, not a very strong signal even in next room. Was enough to do light browsing, and to push updates to PS3.
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