| RCN cable service @Lex MA Okay so you want cable modem access in Lexington MA. Well your one option (as usual) is to go with RCN. This service is relatively new (read fairly fast), I hit T1+ (but not much more) very often. Setup and cost are both average, we are going full out (local phone, cable TV, cable modem) and the price, 100$/month is reasonable plus there is only one bill. If you live here in Lex, Id recommend getting this over the other option, DSL.
So I came back from college sophmore year on a T3 high, which was quickly and repeadedly (every time I tried getting online) smashed by my netzero.com free 56k account. It sucked. I wanted broadband so bad I could taste the bits I was missing. So at that time both Cable and DSL were not available, Lexington is full of Luddites I think. Anyways, after about a year, both DSL and cable services were offering started almost immediatly. I say offered becuase all the providers (RCN and X number of DSL providers I contacted) were all only in the "yes well take your order now because its gonna take 3-6 months to install and active anyways which by that time there actually will be broadband" mode. I for some unknown reason decieded to go with DSL, bad choice. Every DSL provider I talked to, Verizon (still doesn't offer DSL here) Harvard.net, speakeasy, just about everyone either were at some level confused about the availablibity of DSL service. I even got conflicting price information from different representatives from the same company. After wasting my entire winter break researching DSL, i just gave up and the following summer cable modems from RCN came along. There are numerous advantages to getting cable modems. The first being that you won't have to wait an average of 3-6 months before your first TCP/IP header is sent. Our RCN cable service was installed within 2 weeks and most of my freinds relate similar experiences. If this initial installation lag time isn't enough reason (ping = 3months*30days*24hours*60minutes*60seconds*1000 = 7776Million ms) then the service experience of DSL freinds in the area probably will. One of them told me he was switching to cable, the other is toughing out numerous support calls and connection errors for the coming months.
GET CABLE, really, its the lesser of two evils.
preacherman |
