<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Sonic lloked good when we first signed up and we do have a flaky line problem - but . The listed price for a 1 line fusion = what we pay now +- 10% . Our line never acts as a max of 20 mps. line , never seems to get beyond 2 . Initially we paid a rate half what we do now . Maybe this just represents expiration of an initial rate . But in Japan our current rate would get 40mps. , as the usual thing . Sonic's customer service rates many universes better than our last " provider " . Pity I can't get throught the local politics to get anything changed here though . Does one often see 10x rate differences between the initial offer and your ongoing experience , I can imagine that happening with cable . - Bruce<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 5/26/11, conspire-request@linuxmafia.com <i><conspire-request@linuxmafia.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px
solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: conspire-request@linuxmafia.com <conspire-request@linuxmafia.com><br>Subject: conspire Digest, Vol 95, Issue 26<br>To: conspire@linuxmafia.com<br>Date: Thursday, May 26, 2011, 12:00 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Send conspire mailing list submissions to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> <a href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:conspire-request@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=conspire-request@linuxmafia.com">conspire-request@linuxmafia.com</a><br><br>You can reach the person managing the list
at<br> <a ymailto="mailto:conspire-owner@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=conspire-owner@linuxmafia.com">conspire-owner@linuxmafia.com</a><br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of conspire digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: ISP (Daniel Gimpelevich)<br> 2. Re: ISP (Rick Moen)<br> 3. Re: ISP (Deirdre Saoirse Moen)<br> 4. Re: ISP (Deirdre Saoirse Moen)<br> 5. Re: ISP (Luke S Crawford)<br> 6. Re: ISP (Daniel Gimpelevich)<br> 7. Re: ISP (Daniel Gimpelevich)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:18:17 -0700<br>From: Daniel Gimpelevich <<a ymailto="mailto:daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us"
href="/mc/compose?to=daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us">daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us</a>><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [conspire] ISP<br>Message-ID: <1306354697.29682.22.camel@chimera><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"<br><br>On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 09:57 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:<br>> So, it's still residential aDSL, and thus still requires that the<br>> telco<br>> PTSN local loop be available, exactly the same as with Raw Bandwidth.<br>> You just have a relatively lucky situation where it was active only to<br>> the demarc point (perhaps for service to neighbours?) and the<br>> Sonic.net<br>> employee was willing to lean on AT&T until they were no longer<br>> gratuitously obstructive monopolists.<br><br>No. With Fusion, Sonic.net _is_ your CLEC, and the only thing you ever<br>need to
hear from AT&T again is the harassment from their retentions<br>department. Personally, I have had DSLExtreme ever since DSLDesigns went<br>kablooey in 2002, and they are not what they used to be. If Fusion were<br>at all available in my current area, I would have left DSLExtreme in<br>seconds flat. Raw Bandwidth _may_ have the same ADSL2+ service that<br>Sonic.net calls "Fusion" but _only_ on the peninsula. AT&T is barred<br>from owning the local loops for ADSL2+ service, and no one else can own<br>the ones for regular old ADSL. I predict a conversation with Mike Durkin<br>in the future of multiple readers of this post.<br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:26:23 -0700<br>From: Rick Moen <<a ymailto="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com"
href="/mc/compose?to=conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [conspire] ISP<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:20110525202623.GN4536@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=20110525202623.GN4536@linuxmafia.com">20110525202623.GN4536@linuxmafia.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8<br><br>Quoting Daniel Gimpelevich (<a ymailto="mailto:daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us" href="/mc/compose?to=daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us">daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us</a>):<br><br>> No. With Fusion, Sonic.net _is_ your CLEC, and the only thing you ever<br>> need to hear from AT&T again is the harassment from their retentions<br>> department. <br><br>Ah, that's different. That was initial unclear from Tony's posting.<br><br> About Fusion Phone Services<br><br> Fusion delivers our fastest residential broadband, plus traditional<br> home
phone service, at a non-traditional price point! Choose from one<br> or two lines, unlimited nationwide home phone service.<br><br><a href="http://sonic.net/solutions/home/internet/fusion/" target="_blank">http://sonic.net/solutions/home/internet/fusion/</a><br><br>> Raw Bandwidth _may_ have the same ADSL2+ service that<br>> Sonic.net calls "Fusion" but _only_ on the peninsula.<br><br>I might indeed inquire with Mike Durkin about ADSL2+. Certainly, we have<br>no lover whatsoever of Pacific Telephone^W^WPacBell^WSBC^AT&T.<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:36:23 -0700<br>From: "Deirdre Saoirse Moen" <<a ymailto="mailto:deirdre@deirdre.net" href="/mc/compose?to=deirdre@deirdre.net">deirdre@deirdre.net</a>><br>To: "Rick Moen" <<a ymailto="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>>,
"<a ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a>"<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [conspire] ISP<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:xs9mCAxN.1306355783.7988680.dsmoen@davie.textdrive.com" href="/mc/compose?to=xs9mCAxN.1306355783.7988680.dsmoen@davie.textdrive.com">xs9mCAxN.1306355783.7988680.dsmoen@davie.textdrive.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>On 5/25/2011, "Rick Moen" <<a ymailto="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>><a href="http://sonic.net/solutions/home/internet/fusion/" target="_blank">http://sonic.net/solutions/home/internet/fusion/</a><br>><br>>> Raw Bandwidth _may_ have the same ADSL2+ service that<br>>>
Sonic.net calls "Fusion" but _only_ on the peninsula.<br>><br>>I might indeed inquire with Mike Durkin about ADSL2+. Certainly, we have<br>>no lover whatsoever of Pacific Telephone^W^WPacBell^WSBC^AT&T.<br><br>I just checked a couple of sources; we're 12k feet from the home office<br>and I haven't found a site that says we're eligible for ADSL2+.<br><br>Deirdre<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:37:12 -0700<br>From: "Deirdre Saoirse Moen" <<a ymailto="mailto:deirdre@deirdre.net" href="/mc/compose?to=deirdre@deirdre.net">deirdre@deirdre.net</a>><br>To: "Rick Moen" <<a ymailto="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>>, "<a ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a>"<br> <<a
ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [conspire] ISP<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:ij3rQwaR.1306355832.1981400.dsmoen@davie.textdrive.com" href="/mc/compose?to=ij3rQwaR.1306355832.1981400.dsmoen@davie.textdrive.com">ij3rQwaR.1306355832.1981400.dsmoen@davie.textdrive.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>But, FYI, Sonic says their fusion service is available at our house.<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 5<br>Date: 25 May 2011 16:48:32 -0400<br>From: Luke S Crawford <<a ymailto="mailto:lsc@prgmr.com" href="/mc/compose?to=lsc@prgmr.com">lsc@prgmr.com</a>><br>To: "Deirdre Saoirse Moen" <<a ymailto="mailto:deirdre@deirdre.net" href="/mc/compose?to=deirdre@deirdre.net">deirdre@deirdre.net</a>><br>Cc: Rick Moen <<a ymailto="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com"
href="/mc/compose?to=rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>>, "<a ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a>"<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [conspire] ISP<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:m37h9ea4m7.fsf@luke.xen.prgmr.com" href="/mc/compose?to=m37h9ea4m7.fsf@luke.xen.prgmr.com">m37h9ea4m7.fsf@luke.xen.prgmr.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>"Deirdre Saoirse Moen" <<a ymailto="mailto:deirdre@deirdre.net" href="/mc/compose?to=deirdre@deirdre.net">deirdre@deirdre.net</a>> writes:<br><br>> But, FYI, Sonic says their fusion service is available at our house.<br><br><br>Eh, I have the sonic 'fusion' service at my office... when I bought it <br>I got the bonded version. did not
work very well at all.<br>We ended up disabling one line, and it worked fairly well. <br>I ended up canceling the bonded service and just paying<br>for the 1 line 'fusion' and I'm pretty happy with the speeds.<br>It's fast and fairly reliable. <br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 6<br>Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 14:53:11 -0700<br>From: Daniel Gimpelevich <<a ymailto="mailto:daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us" href="/mc/compose?to=daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us">daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us</a>><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [conspire] ISP<br>Message-ID: <1306360391.29682.28.camel@chimera><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"<br><br>On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 13:36 -0700, Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:<br>> I just checked a couple of sources; we're 12k feet from the
home<br>> office<br>> and I haven't found a site that says we're eligible for ADSL2+.<br>> <br>> Deirdre<br><br>Sonic.net does not care about that. They will provision ADSL2+ at _any_<br>distance. Raw Bandwidth would likely do the same if you can get their<br>ADSL2+.<br><br>As for Luke's comments, I thought it went without saying that<br>single-line service is the way to go. Two-line (bonded) service<br>absolutely necessitates the use of proprietary Cisco gear as the CPE<br>(customer premises equipment) as opposed to BYO devices that may run<br>OpenWrt on a handful of ADSL2+ SoC's.<br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 7<br>Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 15:10:35 -0700<br>From: Daniel Gimpelevich <<a ymailto="mailto:daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us" href="/mc/compose?to=daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us">daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us</a>><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com"
href="/mc/compose?to=conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [conspire] ISP<br>Message-ID: <1306361435.29682.29.camel@chimera><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"<br><br>On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 14:53 -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:<br>> On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 13:36 -0700, Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:<br>> > I just checked a couple of sources; we're 12k feet from the home<br>> > office<br>> > and I haven't found a site that says we're eligible for ADSL2+.<br>> > <br>> > Deirdre<br>> <br>> Sonic.net does not care about that. They will provision ADSL2+ at _any_<br>> distance. Raw Bandwidth would likely do the same if you can get their<br>> ADSL2+.<br>> <br>> As for Luke's comments, I thought it went without saying that<br>> single-line service is the way to go. Two-line (bonded) service<br>> absolutely necessitates the use of proprietary Cisco gear as the
CPE<br>> (customer premises equipment) as opposed to BYO devices that may run<br>> OpenWrt on a handful of ADSL2+ SoC's.<br><br>Did I mention that Fusion comes with complementary 6in4 tunnels also?<br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>conspire mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br><a href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br><br><br>End of conspire Digest, Vol 95, Issue 26<br>****************************************<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>