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| 08-02-14 05:50am - 3795 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
You Gotta Love Truth in Advertising AT & T's Uverse has been making a big push lately to get people to switch over, and I was about to do so when I took a hard look at the speed comparison and realized that - at their maximum speeds - which would cost me as much or more as what I'm paying now with Comcast - I'd be getting 1/2 of what Comcast has been delivering to me. A few years ago, I was capped at d/l speeds at 500 kb/sec. Then Comcast announced new higher speeds, and once I got one of their new modems for me, I was getting 6 mb/sec with download accelorators. Comcast has been announcing lately that they were about to double the speeds of their high-speed internet service. Looks like they might have down so, since I was just able to download a scene using a download accelorator at 14 mb/sec. Sweet! | |
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| 08-02-14 06:24am - 3795 days | #2 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
We use Charter here, and get 50MB connections for under 50.00 a month. Of course I have it bundled with phone and TV. Many suppliers are slowing down allot on what they are offering I heard Unlimited Talk and text is being discontinued by Verizon, and those pre-pays. Since 2007 | |
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| 08-02-14 08:10pm - 3795 days | #3 | |
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RagingBuddhist (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 893 Registered: Jan 23, '07 |
I'd keep an eye on Comcast. A few years ago they announced faster speeds then dumped a bandwidth cap on us. I thought Comcast's speeds were great - when they hadn't overloaded the area, putting too many people on one node. But, when they added the 250 gig per month bandwidth cap, I was done with 'em. Join more than one site at a time and 250 gigs could go in less than a week. FIOS costs me about the same as Comcast did, the speeds are more than fast enough AND (so far) unlimited gigs. Sarcasm is a body's natural defense against stupidity. | |
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| 08-03-14 10:45pm - 3794 days | #4 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
Comcast was talking about a usage cap in this area and for a few months they had a usage meter. Apparently they thought better of it because the usage meter disappeared along with all talk of a cap on usage. If they bring it back and it becomes a hassle for me, well Uverse here I come. | |
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| 08-04-14 05:33am - 3793 days | #5 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
I have AT&T UVerse, but not the fastest speed, as it requires their TV-landline-Internet package--totally obsolescent, in my opinion. They're decent in terms of reliability, as it's only gone down for a few minutes at a time. But speeds are definitely not the fastest, and they supposedly do have a monthly data cap, though I've never reached it (they say they will send you an email). Comcast of course recently had that incident with a customer who was trying to cancel (Fool!), and I dread the day I eventually have to switch or cancel my AT&T service. Seriously, you start to think hostage negotiation would be easier than trying to cancel your fucking Internet service...though maybe it's us who are the hostages in these situations.  But the bigger issue, as I've mentioned before, is that municipalities have to start treating Internet access as a utility. This isn't even a socialist pipe dream; it's what happened in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and they have some of the fastest speeds in the U.S. as a result. Unfortunately, the various media giants don't want to relive their death grip on providing Internet access (i.e., profit), much less spend the money to install fiber optics in more rural areas. And Chattanooga did have to battle various groups in court to do this, including, yup, Comcast (I'm sensing a theme here...). But building a national public highway network, installing phone, water, and power utilities wasn't cheap or easy either. So, if the U.S. is serious about remaining a leader in technology and communication, then this should be the public infrastructure project of this era. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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