I'm looking for recommendations from my fellow Fairfax businessmen and women. I need cheap business DSL for my office. I have Verizon now and I pay $40 per month plus tax for the slowest cheapest plan. They are increasing it to $45 soon and they won't let me take advantage of the promotion they are advertising online for $24.95/mo for the same service with a 2yr contract ("new customers only", they say).


I prefer no contract, but at this point am willing to lock in a 1 or 2yr to get something close to the Verizon promotion deal that they won't let me have.

If I dont find anything I'll just cancel service with them altogether and read newspapers all day long while at my office.

Steal WiFi from your neighbors.

Just about any day of the week I'll find 20-30 people stealing mine.

Other than that, you're screwed. Internet access on any level from any provider is too damned expensive. Cox is like gold. Fios is a little better but you have to deal with Verizon and that's as much fun as a root canal.

I do know a friend that uses his cellphone. He's got a one employee other than himself and has a smart phone that has unlimited internet and can be used as a WiFi outlet.

Sorry I don't have any really good news.

actually, I like the idea of using the smartphone as a hotspot. I have unltd data with my provider too, so I might try that out. Or I can just forget about the office and work out of Panera or Starbucks (or even mcdonalds) and use their free wifi.

FrostedMiniWheats Wrote:
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> actually, I like the idea of using the smartphone
> as a hotspot. I have unltd data with my provider
> too, so I might try that out. Or I can just
> forget about the office and work out of Panera or
> Starbucks (or even mcdonalds) and use their free
> wifi.


If I could get away with that, I certainly would. I use my work Fios for security so a hot spot won't be much good to me.

If you can get away with it, go for it.

A couple of weeks ago my daugher and I were on the road when she pulled out her laptop and went to town. I asked her how she was on the web and she confessed that when I stopped for gas, she set up the hotspot in my phone.

It was just as fast as being at home. Luckily we never hit a bad cell service area.

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