Problems with SBC ADSL services

["thesatguy" <thesatguy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many customers now have this crappy ADSL service from SBC.  SBC is doing
continuous b/s ads trying to make people think its "high-speed" and "better"
than the cable modem.  The $29.95 ADSL service is now down to $14.95 to lure
unsuspecting folks into falling far it.

The facts are this: TW offers cable modem service that runs consistantly at
4.70 mb and during busy times it drops to around 3.2 mb for short periods.
Its a two-way high-speed service. It costs $49.95 per month.

SBC offers ADSL that they falsely claim is hgh-speed internet service but
the papers they have filed in response to various lawsuits state that the
lines are clamped at 128kb so that "all online users will have a suitable
experience" and that they actually make no claim of high-speed except from
your house to the first central office.  After that, you are on your own.
And that 128kb speed is only downstream.

For a time I haven't had any problems with these lines, you simply installed
the plugin filter and the communicators worked okay.  Recently, SBC has done
something or has simply tried to put too many customers on too little
service and I now find that communicators cannot dial out because their is
no dial tone while the ADSL lines continuously reboot and attempt to restore
the connections.  When you try to dialup accounts in the middle of the night
you often get an answer after one ring and the connection simply goes into
never-never land for a few seconds and then the lines return to normal.
Your panels won't answer because they never 'hear' the ring.  Or you can
finally get the panel to answer after a bunch of repeat attempts but the
communicator cannot 'hear' because the ADSL is busy rebooting so the panel
will hang up after a minute or two.  This is now causing open/close/test
signals to not come in a couple of days a week from some customers.
Is anyone seeing this foolishness?