 Review by cowboy 
UPDATED: 128 days ago
member for 9.6 years, 3034 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 San Jose,Santa Clara,CA
 $45 per month (12 month contract)
 Verizon (ex GTE)
 "Quick & easy ordering, techs on dslr, static IP, no port blocks..."
 "Website doesn't always play well with Mozilla/Firefox"
 "Thus far, a great value for the $!"
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2009-06-23 Wow, almost 5 years ... A lot has changed:
+ I moved houses and wound up in a rural Verizon area, but kept DSL Extreme 
+ Wound up with 8 IPs, 3M/768 for $57.83 (inclusive)
This week, I was notified that I had until 2009-08-01 to move my service to the new plans - none of which include static IPs (on of the biggest reasons I chose them) 
After alot of searching, I wound up paying *alot* more for COVAD - using the same DSLAM that DSL Extreme wouldn't move me to for some reason (they wont say).
After the new dry-run is shaken out, I'll consider Speak Easy or other rational players (cheaper, but by alot) - but thought for initial setup, the fewer players, the better.
I've dropped DSL Extreme's rating somewhat due to this issue, it remains to be seen if it a fight with COVAD, or a harbinger of further changes to come at DSL Extreme.
I would still highly recommend them for the average user, but will no longer do that for the more technically include, or power user.
Original review:
$42.95+fee Promo deal on 1500-3000/384-416, 2 static IPs, providing my own modem (Netopia 3574W). I'm fairly far from the CO, and just hope I can actually get close to those speeds.
2004-07-02 Got home last night and while doing the final modem updates, noticed I had SYNC (and even Surf) I'm not yet sure about the profile, but I'm SYNCing at the published rate.
Side note: Its hard to see any improvement in speed when one is using traffic shaping set at the older (1.5/256) rates !!! A quick change to the script, and things are *MUCH* better
2004-07-01 Waiting ever so impatiently for SBC/PacBell to activate the line.
2004-07-01 Spent too much time reading the DSL Extreme forum to find some nice info -
* They have a good presence in the dslextreme forum
* It was trivial to add the second IP via their website
* It is as easy to remove the outbound port 25 (smtp/mail) block
* They'll do RDNS for a $25 setup fee (per order, not IP)
2004-06-30 Tried to check my order status via their website, but only received an error popup I mailed their support and was quickly notified that they were working on it and it would be fixed by the next morning (actually corrected a few hours later ). I did, however, shortly thereafter receive (via email and phone call) an install date of 2004-07-07. The mail info included everything I needed to setup my own modem in bridged mode for one of the static IPs.
2004-06-29 Ordered service via website after spending alot of time perusing DSLR and calling the local providers (including Covad - bad phone staff) and MegaPath... DSLExtreme seems to have a very nice niche betwixt the cheap and luser based ISP/ILEC and the nicer, but much more expensive CLEC.
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