Well I don't like bellsouth for crap, I hate them so much because they barely like to upgrade and are very ambiguous to their customers, and their tech support can't do more than what they are told to do.  My problem is this and I want to see what you guys can tell me.  I want to lower my phone costs by switching to lingo or a VOIP, because bellsouth phone is nearly $40, which is a piece of S#!t when I only ask for the $10 phone line and $10 caller ID, which totals $20.  This doesn't make sense and is a rip if you ask me since the extra $20 is from a bunch of BS surcharges and taxes that bellsouth puts on the bill.  So I want to get lingo so I only get charged for $20 a month (like this i can upgrade my internet), but what Bellsouth tech support is telling me is that I need a bellsouth phone active in order to have bellsouth DSL, but why pay for their phone when you only want their internet.  I would like to ask anybody else who has bellsouth dsl if they use a VOIP and not their phone service.  Cause I want to be sure before I go off the limb and get lingo and turn out to be still paying for bellsouth phone service because I need the phone line to have the dsl and hence still pay for the VOIP.  Which would be a total rip on part of bellsouth.

For any dsl service you will need a phone number that is an active line with a dial tone. Some companies offer dsl with no phone line needed but it usually costs extra because that company rents the line from a local telco. See what the cheapest phone package bellsouth offers and add it with the dsl and voip charge and see if you would still save any money.

I know my phone company offers a package for like 10 dollars a month which I was considering getting along with their dsl and then vonage, but cable and vonage turned out to be cheaper.

Welcome to the forum nndhawan 
Yeah, read your bill and discuss it with wour phone co. Bet it is taxes and 911 etc... Just the way it is. 

I love it when a company calls and wants me to change because they can save me $. I ask about the taxes...

How much are you paying for internet now?
Earthlink, which resells Comcast and rr has the 6meg service for 45.95 a month.

So with that and vonage is about 70 bucks, what are you paying now in total?

Earthlink receives discounts from the cable companies and is therefore able to sell it at a cheaper rate then if you just want internet and no tv service.
http://www.Earthlink.net/highspeed/pricing/

I wouldn't laugh too loud about it, since what you're describing isn't possible.  DSL isn't like cable where you can tweak the modem or something.  They provision your line at a certain speed and that is all the speed there is to get, tweaks or not.

Now, maybe they screwed up and your line is provisioned at 3meg, that's always possible.  But if it's provisioned for 1.5megs, there is absolutely no way you can get 3meg.

hay RJ44 do you have anyidea why bellsouth caped the upload 512Kbps and did not overcap it like they did the download.