Just got an invite to http://forrst.com and have to say I’m really happy with the site, there’s a lot of helpful people on there and I think I’ll be able to learn a lot from them. Hopefully I’ll be able to contribute a bit as well… time to get back to coding soon.

I recently moved to a new apartment, so didn’t have internet for a while and was practically going crazy having to use my phone’s tiny screen for everything.  Finally got AT&T dsl setup today, what a relief!  It’s feels super fast too, even though it’s only 6 megabits down and 1.5 up.

When I walked into the AT&T store with Gabrielle a week ago, all I was thinking about was signing up for DSL. There were no other customers in the 1000 sqft store, so 8 workers were all standing right at the door just hanging out, it was kind of intimidating. (It reminded me of running into a gate camp in EVE online, right before I learned what a warp stabilizer was used for.) They combined home phone, wireless, and a bunch of other stuff into one store recently and had separate people for each service, and trainees as well so it seemed like the store was crowded even with just the two of us there.

The sales lady told me I should get U-Verse because “everyone was getting it,” “it was only $50 more” and that it has guaranteed bandwidth, unlike DSL.  She said the downside of DSL is that it slows down if multiple people are using it all at once… but that just makes it a better deal now since she told me they are going to stop offering it soon (no new dsl subscribers) in order to push out U-Verse (reducing existing dsl subscribers)… which in my head combines to mean that I’ll be getting all the bandwidth to myself!  MUAHAHA.

To top it all off, when I called in to get a problem with our phone line fixed, the service guy offered me a promo deal if I signed a year contract, dropping the price by 75% vs Uverse for the same 6 megabits – without the $125 subsidy for the infrastructure! Almost makes me want to go out and get a couple more DSL lines.