I decided to temporarily go back to dial up fortunately LA area has free dial internet .. its not fast but it still lets me do almost everything I need to do..and its the right price....after all shortly after the holiday I will have an alternative in place I hope....<br />
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Earthlink just could not provide consistent service to my phone line....They are good with the Customer Service Schpel (Sp) &quot;oh I am so sorry ..blah blah blah..<br />
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After everything said and done it cost me an additional 30 dollars and some change to buy out my contract... I am just glad I uploaded all those pictures before I had to go back to dial...<br />
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Anyway.. thats the story from here.. I wish Understood why techs are telling me I need to have a filter on the Brinks security system line when neither the security system phone line  or the DSL is being used at the same time.<br />
Also is if there are 5 DSL providers what make the difference  if they are just providing access to the net at comparable speeds? Is there something I am not understanding?