Verizon service and quality still suck in Texas. It's as slow (or slower) than dial-up 25% of the time. And they have you go through all these silly rituals when you call up to complain about the service. Unplug this and that and wait for 5 minutes, et.al... Never works and I finally gave up. I'm thinking of going with cable internet service. Phillip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fine" Verizon botched DSL very badly. They've improved > somewhat in recent years but now it's smarter to just wait for them to > drop fiber and get TV and data and telephony. People in my area with cable > telephony got the last laugh the past 2 days since Verizon had phone > service out while they replaced a copper trunk line -- with more copper. > Nice. > > -- Tom Fine >