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Moving: Good-Bye DSL hello cable
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Location: Vancouver B.C.
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It's true after 7 years, 3 months, 27 days and 23 hours I am going from ADSL to cable. This is a sad sad day, as I don't want and can't afford to have the phone jacks switched (I only have one phone jack). At least I will be saving $70/month. Also the $120 I paid for 2.5mb/864kbps (including useless phone line) is getting a 20GB cap which is 100% too small. ADSL is reliable, stable, consistent - as for cable? well not good. Cable has a 50GB cap and is 7mb/1mb. Until I move to a reseller (monopoly here) which claims unlimited. if I can do 150GB/month I will be fine. iChat AV is bad for caps.
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Originally Posted by Mac Write
Cable has a 50GB cap and is 7mb/1mb.
7mb/1mb? Wow, that beats the crap out of my 4mb/384kb from Comcast.
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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Dry DSL is damned easy, you know.
The thing about cable is its variability -- in some neighborhoods, it's awesome, in others it sucks. And the only way to know is to get it and try it. My experience with cable was so bad that I will never try it again unless I have no choice.
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Location: Vancouver B.C.
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Well I have no choice but cable. At least until I become a business and can get Bell business DSL with unlimited for $60+$35 for phone. I know the technical thing about cable. I am out in New West, but the node (DOCSIS 2) could still be congested. Trust me I would rather pay the $70/month more and keep my slower DSL, but can't.
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Washington, DC
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I'm happy with Comcast... but it does to out from time to time... not very business friendly.
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Admin Emeritus Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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When I had comcast, it died on me every other week for 24+ hours, before finally dying altogether and not being fixed for 2 weeks... I moved after that, and then comcast tried billing me for 3 months of service at the old address. It took weeks of calls to get that all straightened out...
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Illinois might be cold and flat, but at least it's ugly.
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tooki: Sorry to hear about your difficulty with Comcast. I never had a problem with the internet, but heard their video service was horrid. We have Satelite and love it! Directv baby!
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Addicted to MacNN
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I wish you every success Mac Write.
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Vancouver B.C.
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I am going with Shaw then moving to 3web
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Get busy living or get busy dying --Stephen King
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Location: Edmonton, AB
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Berkshire, UK
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I hate the cable company as much as the next guy, but the truth is, I've never had a problem with cable aside from a modem that died (and was replaced in less than 24 hours from my call). But whatever I think about them, they are my only option for now, DSL is not available- to far from the CO. However, Verizon in laying down Fiber Optic lines in our area and I was told FIOS (I think that's what it's called) should be online end of this or early next year. Looks pretty inviting.
I'm not sure if I have bandwidth caps on my cable, but I use iChatAV a lot, more than most I would guess (travel a lot for work and have nightly chats with the kids) and I've never had a problem.
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Paco is bitter about the loss of his .mac webpage. Image will return when his sadness lessens.
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Michigan, USA
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Never a single problem with Comcast internet here, they're just so damned expensive. And their cable TV stinks… I'll never go back to cable after getting Dish Network. If I had the option of naked DSL I'd check it out. I'd gladly lose some bandwidth with DSL if I can get it for $30/month or less. If I lived about a half-hour west I'd have the option of wireless… the whole city of Grand Rapids has wireless access, or so I've heard.
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Hyrule
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I'd need a few pages to list all my problems with SBC's billing department, but their DSL service is "pretty darn good" compared to the comcast cable service out here. The thing is, I like to play around with various server configs on my line.. when speaking to an SBC rep it's "You know, that shouldn't be a problem, but we do have business service if it is"
When speaking to a comcast rep it's "No servers... except for private networks and they better not be on our line!"
So a "Don't ask don't tell" policy vs a "NONE FOR YOU!" policy... hrmmmm
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