From: "Glenn Meadows" 

The key to resellers, is that they can only offer service where it's
available, as they don't actually provide the hardware to get the signal to
your house, it comes from the Bell CO, whoever originally put up the wires
in that area.

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Glenn M.
"Ellen K."  wrote in message
news:omflp212hliughbmtp5lv6hcu1tn0pdf0l{at}4ax.com...
> I'll check them out, thanks.  A couple of independent ones showed up on
> google but both appeared to merely be reselling the AT&T service, and
> bumping the rate from 12.95 introductory to 55.00 "after the
> introductory period" which -- get this -- wasn't defined.
>
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:26:01 -0500, "David B"

> wrote in message :
>
>>Ellen, I used a small company called Speakeasy for DSL for several years,
>>and was very much pleased with them. Their people actually seemed to give
>>a
>>damn. Maybe they can provide service in your area. I left them for reasons
>>OTHER than quality of service and pricing- I was a VERY satisfied
>>customer.
>>
>>You can find them at www.speakeasy.net
>>
>>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
>>news:dqajp2lbrg5g282qqrgk4ehbv63tmfnmid{at}4ax.com...
>>>I had basically decided to take the AT&T router and figure out what
>>> extra adapters I might need once I would see it... (Yes, even *I* know
>>> the difference between an ethernet port and a USB one...)... but now the
>>> website says DSL isn't available for my phone number, with the
>>> additional "helpful" information that "High
speed internet is not
>>> available outside AT&T service areas or to wireless
telephone numbers."
>>> They are my local carrier and the number I input is a land line they
>>> provide, and every month there is an ad on my bill envelope about how I
>>> can get high speed internet starting at $14.99 a month.  On Friday I
>>> tried calling "customer service" and was told  I
can't sign up for high
>>> speed internet unless I already have an sbc.com email address, which
>>> made so little sense that I just hung up.
>>>
>>> Anybody know anything about this?
>>>
>>> Tried the Verizon site, struck out there also but that makes more sense
>>> since in fact I am an AT&T customer.  Don't really want
cable based on
>>> what I've heard and anyway it's hugely more expensive, as would be a
>>> Sprint card I could stick in the laptop that would work anywhere.
>>>
>>> Sent AT&T an email but not holding my breath.
>>>
>>> Suggestions?
>

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