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Review by jofallon See Profile
UPDATED: 194 days ago
member for 7.8 years, 2733 visits, last login: a few hours ago


Oak Park,Cook,IL
$79 per month (24 month contract)
about 14 days
AT&T
"Excellent speed and reliability; at least at first."
"Tech support maybe assumes too much in the way of knowledge. Not very interested in diagnosing line problems."
"got Comcast"
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    My line needs to be in safe mode to be stable. A week or so ago, it went into fast mode. LB put it back in safe mode, but since then the line has been disconnecting and reconnecting every hour or two.

    A final note - the connection got totally unstable; disconnects 10-12 times a day. It always reconnected at the usual speed, and oddly, the router log never showed any error messages. LB said a problem with the inside line; which worked fine with the phone and with Speakeasy before, and had nothing else on it. Rather than muck with LB, Covad and ATT, I just got the Comcast package. More expensive, but enormously faster and more reliable. We have lots of old copper in Oak Park, and I'm not interested in persuading ATT to test all the lines between me and the CO.

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    Leicafl
    Premium
    join:2004-10-18
    Miami, FL

    Good luck...

    Good luck...I expect you'll need it, eventually!
    permalink · 2008-07-11 22:38:53 · Reply to this
    hottboiinnc
    ME

    join:2003-10-15
    Cleveland, OH

    Cable

    I'd pick cable over DSL anyday! Generally is always faster, especially if you have DSL through a 3rd party reseller, especially if they're using COVAD for residential access.
    permalink · 2009-05-15 12:24:38 · Reply to this
    jofallon
    Premium
    join:2002-01-05
    Oak Park, IL
    ·Lightning Bolt DSL

    1 edit

    Cable vs DSL

    I was always one of those preferring (unmetered) DSL. Even at the $140 level, Comcast has the 250 gig cap. I wouldn't think it would matter; but I use CrashPlan for offsite backup, and something they do eats up bandwidth. Of course, half the benefit of 50 megabit download speeds falls apart with the cap. If I actually did video streaming from Netflix or whatever, my quota would disappear pretty quickly.
    permalink · 2009-05-16 22:23:30 · Reply to this
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