[s-cars] Re: NAC - cable modem vs DSL question

[Daniel Hussey]

Hey seriously...  I'd like to know more on this too.

I currently have Comcast Cable internet (previously AT&T Broadband), but
they have been pissing me off and jacked up the rates to $55.95 + tax per
month!!!!  I think DSL is way cheaper, but heard download times are
typically slower.  Biggest reason I haven't switched to DSL is because I
need a hard phone line.  I currently use my cell phone for everything.  A
hard phone line will cost me $25 a month which kinda negates the extra
savings.

I dunno.  The cable company said they would add cable service for TV for $7
a month, but they give you like NO channles with that...  you have to get
what they call "expanded cable" to get any of the good channels (and, these
are still commercial channels, mind you) and that will cost me $26 a
month!!!  I told them to f^&#* off, and so I am getting Dish Network for the
same price.

Later,
Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Landaeta" <landaeta1 at comcast.net>
To: "Steve Marinello" <smarinello at charter.net>; <robert at s-cars.org>; "Brian
Powell" <brian at atomicham.com>
Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 6:58 PM
Subject: RE: [s-cars] Re: NAC - cable modem vs DSL question


> interesting, sounds like some 'you get what you pay for' My cable service
is
> NOT cheap, with digital TV cable and internet, I'm at about $108. But in
my
> densly populated area, I have no significant outages (maybe 1-2 per year
of
> less than 4 hour duration) and the network upgrades of cable head-ends
along
> with proper load balancing may be why I see good service, not affected by
> time of day/day of week.
>
> There's a place for cheap, but it's not internet for me, just too damn
> addicted...
> Doug L
> 94 S4
> Cable internet since 1996
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-admin at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-admin at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Steve Marinello
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 4:33 PM
> To: robert at s-cars.org; Brian Powell
> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Re: NAC - cable modem vs DSL question
>
>
> FWIW, my experience here north of New Orleans is the exact opposite.  DSL
at
> a rock solid 1.4+ Mbps without problem or slowdowns.  Charter.net cable at
> nowhere near that speed and ALWAYS slower in the evenings and weekends.
> Outages with way too many medium-size thunderstorms and every major
tropical
> storm-type system, and they may last for days.  The last two, a few weeks
> apart, lasted nearly 3 and 4 days.  Totally unacceptable.  I've
recommended
> to Bob to check the offered speed and guarantee.  No comparison, in my
> experience and those of my neighbors and professional colleagues in the
> area.
>
> I only got cable because telocity/directvinternet shut down their DSL
> service and Charter offered a "too  cheap to pass up" deal with a
> performance guarantee that seemed decent.  Just not in the real world and
> thunderstorm activity isn't covered.  I only keep it 'cause in the cable
> package it's costing me under $20/month.
>
> Steve
> (BellSouth DSL now, but I've still got to get around to changing
> subscription addresses...sometime)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Powell" <brian at atomicham.com>
> To: <robert at s-cars.org>
> Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 11:42 AM
> Subject: [s-cars] Re: NAC - cable modem vs DSL question
>
>
> > I had DSL for over a year.  I've had cable for almost 3 years.  No
> > comparison: cable is far superior.
> >
> > I was spending more for DSL at the time for 800kbps and it was flaky.
> >
> > The "more users slow you down" is DSL marketing BS.  Comcast guarantees
> > (and limits) 1.5Mbps on my cable for downstream.  Where that mantra
> > came from was the early days of cable, you could get full bandwidth
> > that your modem supported (most support 4Mbps) unless there was a lot
> > of activity, and you would drop down to slower than 4Mbps (you will
> > still be an order of magnitude faster than many DSL connections).
> > Since the explosion in users, they don't let it grab bandwidth and
> > vary, they just set each node to 1.5Mbps and leave it at that.
> > Upstream is slower, I can't recall what at the moment (I believe
> > 384kbps up).
> >
> > My cable has been down once in 3 years (that was when @Home folded and
> > AT&T had to switch us over).  BTW, my home phone is over the cable as
> > well; I don't have any Bell connections active at my house.
> >
> > Since they installed my cable modem years ago, they didn't add a filter
> > yielding "free" analog tv; however, comcast charges me now for analog
> > cable whether I subscribe or not...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Brian
> >
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