I got fed-up with Verizon billing me $40 per month every month for DSL and sending me offers for faster service at $29.95 per month every month so I send them an email a week back asking them whether I could be switched to the lower cost faster DSL and why they didn't just do this for me automatically. But they were nice and allowed me to do the whole transaction via email. They even sent a wireless router that Jeremy recommends doing nothing with since the doubling in download speed and tripling in upload speed shouldn't have anything to do with the modem. Then I was wondering how I would know if they sped-up the connection or not or if I needed to install the new router or just ignore it. Jeremy recommended testing my connection speed at DSL Reports.com. So I tested it and it was slow as before. It's a fun little test and for a geeky person has a bit of humor in it when it tells you about the DSL speed so that if you have a slow speed near old modem speeds the definition of that speed is "Ugghh".

Here was my exchange with Verizon...

"Before we change your account to reflect a new price, we must explain something to you. Right now your account is on a plan, which includes an additional 150 hours of Dial Up service every month. If your account is changed over, you will loose the Dial Up service that you currently have on your account.

Receiving a price change will also have an impact on your DSL speed. Should you choose the Annual Commitment plan (for $29.95 per month), your new DSL speed would be 1.5Mbps/384Kbps (rather than your current 768Kbps/128Kbps). "

I have never used one minute of dial-up and wouldn't because it comes in at ugghh speed. So if you were an early adopter of DSL through Verizon I'd recommend asking them for a new and better plan.