I hear you dude! I just added a second line and decided to make it DSL and yesterday for hours and hours no email no surfing out! Was very strange. Must be something going on between Centralia and long view. Joseph _____ From: Jim Harrison [mailto:Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 9:05 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] OT: I HATE VERIZON WITH A F#$%ING PASSION!!! http://www.ISAserver.org If you had tried to either send me mail or get something from ISATools.org, you may have noticed some rather irritating non-responses today. This is because my DSL line is acting up (consumer-grade service; waddaya expect?). I've logged literally hours of downtime today and when I tried to get some help from Verizon, all I got was either "we're closed for the holidays" or "you're not using Verizon for your ISP, so we can't help you". This is customer service?!? If only it were as easy as the Qwest commercials made it sound, I'd shift telco carriers in a New York micro-second. My ISP (ZipCon, if you're in the Seattle area) put in some serious overtime for me today, but all to no avail. Needless to say, we're both PO'd in the extreme. If this is what deregulation gets us, it sucks big time. I'm almost considering moving to Business Cable (T-1 costs ~$800/mo between ISP and telco fees)... <GRRRR> ..at least I got the cables and adapters I needed to get some basic sound paths built for my studio... Alcohol; mass quantities of alcohol... That's what's needed, here... Jim Harrison MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison/ http://isatools.org Read the help / books / articles! ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist ISA Server Newsletter: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/newsletter.asp ISA Server FAQ: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 Exchange Server Resource Site: http://www.msexchange.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: josephk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx All mail to and from this domain is GFI-scanned.