I've had Verizon DSL in my house since Fall 2001, and had have mixed experiences. When we only had one computer connected, we would often have trouble connecting, and I would end up calling them for a problem that could be solved by either restarting the modem or the computer. When we installed a wireless router, these problems disaapeared (although getting the computers to connect to the router wirelessly was a challenge). In recent times, Verizon introduced MSN to their packages, and it took a little bit of effort to install it. Overall, I am happy with the service, but wished it would be a little (sorry, much) faster.

even with the 700+kbps it slow hmm well that went out the window unless its...what kind of computer do you have?

All internet connections have their ups and downs. I have bright house and they have the same problems. It cuts out some times for no reasons. I want to get Verizon Fios. That would be cool but sadly we can't afford it and don't really need it.

By the way, when I said slow I meant like <150 KBps. This is really slow compared to Optimum Online, which is around 6 MBps. I know someone who got Verizon DSL recently, and it is much faster (my problem is probably the hard ware-the modem, which is a pretty old model I figure).

I have verizon DSL and the main problem is the router you get is kind of bad, it stops working if it gets overheated. The speed is great, I had to call verizon because I was 50 feet shy of the access point It works fine though, and you get other services free or discounted if your phone company is verizon.

Summary:

ups: high speeds, great service, unlimited access

Downs:
low upload speeds (as with all DSL lines)
crappy router that you can only replace if you know how to set up the new one
You may be out of range
they may charge you a penny more than stated to make extra money

what speed did you have on verizon dsl connection and how many money did you pay to their company?

I am currently on a dial-up connection and I pay something about 12$ / month in order to have unlimited internet on weekends. I think it's a big price but I don't have any other solutions at this moment.

I want to use a satellite connection even if they are at about 50$/month but I also need this damned dial-up connection in order to upload information. This means I'll pay for a one-way satelitte connection because the two-way needs a high-priced equipment and I don't have a lot of money to buy.

Anyway, could you please tell me how much money are you paying to verizon for your line?

thank you very much. goodbye and have a nice day.

is that reason you have like the dial up and not broadband/dsl/cable modem, ok that would make sense phew might have to reconsider getting the dsl line then.

As mentioned before, my connection is usually LESS THAN 100 KBPs. And if I try to download something, the speed will steadily decrease as it gets further into the file. My computer is brand spanking new (PH Pavillion a1010y with 2.93 GHz Pentium 4 and 512 MB RAM, and XP Pro), so it shouldn't be the problemm, nor my wireless network. I have no clue of what is paid for the service; my father's job includes it for working at home. And once again, we have one of the older Westell WireSpeed modems (ours lays flat, and is kinda big, almost as big as the Linksys WiFi router we use it with).

Is the slowness on your end or the other end? Many webservers limit people to 128kbs downloads. So if your downloading a large file from an FTP server it may be their end that is doing the limiting. I have 3MBS cable and I found that out. Why with that advertised "speed" was I only downloading at 64k, well then I tried downloading from a bunch of different servers things like FreeBSD ISO's, OpenOffice, and other large files all at the same time. One was 115k, another 64k, another 34k, and yet another at 200k. So in total I was pulling down about 512kbs from the different sources. So the lack of speed wasn't on my end, it was on the end I was connecting to, the FTP server or webserver.

I know our hosting company at work limits download speeds to 128k. So if someone is trying to download a samle video it might take a couple minutes even with broadband because of that.