Just discovered that DSLreports is no more. :-( But very happy to be here. I was meerkat at DSL also. Longtime LI optimum user, back to when it was Cablevision and my internet was just dial-up from LI.net (anyone here remember them? lol) in the late 1990s. If I recall correctly, they began offering internet in my local neighborhood during the early 2000s and we've had them ever since, through three subsequent house moves.
So glad that this successor forum was started! It's bookmarked. :-)