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Re: Down with SBC! Well then tell my cable company to stop boosting services on the lower population end of the county and move to my end.
I live in Northern VA and have DSL, I would have originally rather had Cable after seeing how well RoadRunner worked (offered by Cox 5 miles to my left), but Comcast has yet to offer anything in my area except shoddy service (would get Direct TV or Dish but Apartment complex won't allow it). Digital Cable launched last year sometime in my county and has yet to move beyond the area around the Comcast Main office, Cable Internet available for over 2 years now is still in the same boat. I have called them and been called by them and the Rep told me that all of the wiring has been finished and the Testing Completed. But they won't turn it on.
So now I have Verizon DSL and it has only gone down once. The service I have seems to vary greatly from the horror stories others have experience, I think in part due to the fact that I am in a prior GTE area.
Cable will not replace DSL, My ping is a lot lower with ADSL then my friends Roadrunner account, I don't slow down around 6pm when everyone gets home from work (most nights I'm not home by 6), and my download speed on 768/128 is fast enough to be comparable mostly due to the fact that a lot of sites will not pay for the bandwidth to support DL'ing at anything over 120kbps and when I hit 88Kbps on most (downloading Red Hat 7.2) the time differance wasn't enough to worry over. |
