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Rick
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join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
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reply to Canezoid
Re: Great Interview Karl

My Comcast service is very stable. As is everyone's who I know.
As for price, I've made numerous posts here at BBR stating my position being I think that whether it's DSL we're talking about or cable, I think both represent an outstanding value compared to where things used to be.

My point regarding price is in response to others who attempt to continually point out DSL as being the "cheaper" alternative. The chevy if you will, versus the BMW or Lexus.

They certainly have one thing right. Cable is, for the most part..the lexus compared to most dsl plans.

But that isn't true in terms of price many times. More and more, it's about how these services are packaged that determine the real price.

A 1.5Mb DSL plan for 20.00 that comes with a requirement that one must take a phone line in order to get it is NOT the cheaper alternative to a cable customer who pays 42.95 month for 20Mb powerboost speeds and who doesn't want that landline.

In fact, anyway you look at that scenario..it's the DSL plan that is expensive.

And so, why pay BMW prices for that chevy, eh?
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The Coyote captured the RR! Roadrunner Rick is now Comcastic!


S_engineer

join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL

With all of these analogies to autos, then we should be able to apply the Lemon Law to both telcos and cablecos. As for Comcrap, you should feel fortunate that you live where they don't have the signal issues that a major metro area has. Entire sections working fine next to areas that are completely FUBAR. As far as price went, I've had both ATT dsl and Comcrap. I hate them both.
The only positive things I could say about dsl is 1)it's not dial up and 2)they didn't raise their price every 6 months like cable. I moved so now its cable. For basic cable I'm paying $69 and 49 for HSI. But yes, at least I have a choice.
So you say I have a lexus with comcast huh....feels like a '74 ford maverick to me!
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