Review by kathologist  - Location: Lakeport,Lake,CA
- Cost: $35 per month (12 month contract)
 AT&T
Good "Customer Support; privacy protection; active in the communites"
Bad "need to watch main site for specials"
Overall "While the compitition offers cheaper, you get what you pay for..."
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I live in rural Northern California in a mountainous region.
We are one of the least wired counties in California.
Sonic.net has been my #1 choice for almost a decade.
When I lived in San Francisco, I had the luck of being one of the first 30,000 SDSL pacbell customers due to my membership with the SF Computer Users Group.
If you have Sonic.net and decide to become a DirecTV customer, they have a great bundling package. Since I am already a DTV customer, it doesn't apply to me.
Sonic has competitive pricing and is pro EFF.
Sonic does not snoop on you like AT&T etc, and NO CAPS on bandwidth.
The competition:
Mediacom is expensive and unreliable. At the time I used them (2003), you could only have one device at a time logged in. They have outages and poor reception (this is anecdotal from current customers).
member for 214 days, 4 visits, last login: 44 days ago
updated 44 days ago
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 | | Not always "get what you pay for" w/cheaper ISPs :-) While the compitition offers cheaper, you get what you pay for... Not necessarily true... The only two ISPs I've had since 1995 have been Sonic.net ('95-2008) and the similar-sized DSLExtreme ('08-now) — I've had similar DSL speeds, reliability, and support experiences through both.
Just mentioning that there's at least one other decent ISP, in case you or anyone else falls on hard times as I did.  | |
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