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Utah (Salt Lake area) DSL or Cable suggestions....
Quest appears to have a fast (5Mbps) service using MSN as the ISP. Though the are a host of other ISPs. Is MSN going to require using Windows? (Cause I'm running Linux)
thanks much for any advice or experiences...
I'd suggest looking into Xmission. They're a great local ISP and even
provide fiberoptic in many areas.
I was hoping to suggest Utopia, but
it looks like Bountiful isn't in their service area. That being the case,
I'll agree with the previous posters: XMission DSL is probably your best
option.
Qwest doesn't require that you use MSN. In fact, when I told them I didn't
need an MSN email address they agreed to make Qwest my ISP. I get 7MBPS
down and 1MBPS up, though this varies by location. Speed wise and cost
wise it is much cheaper than cable. I've installed the DSL modem for
others and have never needed to use any of the MSN stuff. I just go
straight to the modem and set it up.
You might check out speakeasy DSL. They are the best DSL provider that I've
ever used.
Yes, I am looking for a good connection in Bountiful also. We had Qwest DSL
but it went down everytime there was a rain or snow storm. Also, the DLS
service is the slower speed and the Qwest cannot tell you went or if the
faster speeds will be availabel. Once when the DSL went down we told them
NOT to send a service person, they did anyway and want to charge us $85 he
was there less then 5 minutes, said it was our problem not qwest's, that is
when we dropped them and started looking for someone else.