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Doc wrote:
I've been thinking of getting DSL. EMBARQ offers what at first glance
seems like a decent deal 19.95/mo but looking at the "fine print" I'm
a bit put off.

I have Embarq DSL. If you are in an Embarq area, its probably the only
DSL provider you can have as opposed to many bell areas where you can
also get Earthlink, Focal and others.

The one thing that really really frosts me is that there is no dial
access that comes with it to use when the DSL is out or you are
traveling. You need a second ISP for that.

A minor annoyance was that if you try to go to a URL and you make a
typo, instead of getting a "no such address" it took you to an Embarq
site to try to sell you on Embarq services of various sorts. However, I
did notice an item on the screen, "check here to disable this "service""
which I have done and it now works properly. Earthlink introduced the
same thing, but to escape you had to go in your internet settings and
change the DNS pointer to an alternate Earthlink DNS server.

I pay $29.95 a month for DSL, but shipping the modem was rebated and I
don't recall any activation fee. Its part of a bundle which includes
local service and unlimited LD service

I don't recall any outages except one a few months ago which involved
physical damage to my phone line (phone also out).
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