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acadiel
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2015-Feb-10 1:15 pm
Moving to Atlanta area (kind of a dumping question thread for me)Most recently have lived a couple hours away from Chicago (Comcast + Frontier) and inbetween Tampa/Orlando (BrightHouse + Verizon).
Working in the Dunwoody area and so will be looking around for a house somewhere at the beginning of next month.
As far as I can tell, there's Comcast (with a 250GB cap - what the?) in Atlanta and AT&T U-verse. I dumped Comcrap years ago when I tried to unbundle my 25M service, and they wanted to up my bill to $75/mo. I dropped them completely, and got Frontier 24M/2M service for ~$50/mo and an OTA antenna.
I'm probably going to do OTA again, so probably don't want any TV bundles. Have an AT&T Home Phone Connect, so don't need a phone bundle. Just need Internet.
Have four daughters and tons of devices on the network. 24M was fine, but am on promo for BrightHouse for 75M service (which is pretty awesome). No usage limits on both my old Frontier or BrightHouse service that I've been able to tell.
Just looking for opinions on what parts of Atlanta (within a good hour or less) driving distance to Dunwoody have decent broadband, whether AT&T or Comcast is recommended (of I see Google Fiber eventually, too), etc.
Any other advice that anyone has about moving here, such as which cell carriers work well in the metro area (we're looking at possibly switching from VZW to T-Mobile) would be awesome. When I last visited some of the suburbs right next to the outer loop in 2006, AT&T and T-Mobile were horrible in a lot of neighborhoods.
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Make sure you know how far away you are from the node if you pick at&t. |
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acadiel
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2015-Apr-16 9:36 am
said by c0rrupt:Make sure you know how far away you are from the node if you pick at&t. I've asked AT&T and DSLxtreme how far I was.. and haven't gotten an answer back yet. I think I might go with DSLxtreme, as they have free install, a 1 year contract, and equivalent pricing to AT&T. Plus, they have support here in the forums. I can get 18M/1.5M from them, it appears. |
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I saw an article recently where AT&T announced GigaPower would roll out on April 13 in parts of Atlanta, Decatur, Newnan, Sandy Springs and surrounding communities located throughout the metro area. Finding out exactly where those parts are may turn out to be difficult though. |
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JoelC707 Premium Member join:2002-07-09 Lanett, AL |
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I used to live in the Atlanta area, specifically Scottdale (surrounded by Decatur, Clarkston and Avondale if you aren't familiar with Scottdale). I grew up there actually, spent 20+ years in the same house, ironically the same house my dad grew up in.
I used to work in the Dunwoody area (office was in Presidential Commons right at 285/85 spaghetti junction) and went to a tech school in that area (that no longer exists) half day so I'm somewhat familiar with that area too lol.
If you just need Internet, you're going to likely wind up paying full price right off the bat. That's with nearly any provider, not just Comcast. Though you're right Comcast and AT&T (and the AT&T resellers) are your only main options there until Google Fiber rolls out. Also keep an eye on the specific neighborhoods Google listed, it wasn't all of "Atlanta" IIRC.
To be honest, you will really have to see how far your loop is for DSL to know whether it's worth getting or not. We started with DSL though Bellsouth when they first rolled it out (Cable modem wasn't quite yet available) and it quickly degraded in speeds to about 768k. Of course we are at something like 12-15K feet from the CO. My grandparents were closer to the CO (about 8k feet tops) and had much better and more stable speeds. He was always able to get Bellsouth's best tiers, we weren't. Now that they are deploying RT's you really can't go by where the CO is and have to know where your loop goes.
And for full disclosure, dad worked for the local cable system (which was ultimately bought out by Comcast) and we did get cable modem service as soon as it was available. We never had any speed problems out of it but at the time there were two uBRs that were in the hubsite connecting the nodes and our node just happened to be on the less utilized uBR lol.
I can't speak to the caps Comcast has, I haven't been in a Comcast system for about 3 years now. IIRC the caps were only really enforced if you were on an overloaded node and then only if you were one of the highest users on that node. In other words, it's not something the average person would ever even notice. Of course things change and that may have changed for all I know.
We had Nextel (Comcast used Nextel, may still) and after Sprint bought them we switched to the Sprint side. Never had any real issues with signal in any of the areas I regularly traveled (east side of 285 basically). There is a total dead zone down around the airport but that's somewhat expected lol. We switched to Verizon when we were in Tucson (Sprint had poor coverage out there) and have had excellent service all over since then. Dad did have a T-Mobile phone for an IT job he did after he retired from Comcast and he always had signal issues with it, though that was about 10 years ago now so lots could have changed in that time with T-Mobile. |
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SmokChsr
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2015-Apr-24 2:59 am
said by JoelC707:and went to a tech school in that area (that no longer exists) half day so I'm somewhat familiar with that area too lol. Sounds like Deep Fired, oops I meant DeVry Institute of Technology On Chamble Tucker |
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2015-Apr-24 8:34 am
Nah it was part of Dekalb Schools. Long name was Dekalb High School of Technology - North and it was on the Georgia Perimiter Dunwoody campus on Womack near Tilly Mill. It was always called OEC or Occupational Education Something. There was a companion school on the south end of Dekalb on Panthersville that's still operational. |
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acadiel
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2015-May-13 10:21 am
Thanks, everyone! I did also want to ping some Atlanta residents who have AT&T for a landline provider and understand what taxes and fees are on their bill... AT&T's offering me three packages, $24, $30, or $32, for their services, and I do know they have the USF, taxes, and Line Charges on their bills. |
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I'm on the NE side of Atlanta and have Charter which presently does not enforce caps. Their base tier though, is 60M for $52 bundled, and $59 I think unbundled. If that interests you at all, ask the realtors where there are Charter areas on the north side. |
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acadiel
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2015-May-16 9:24 am
said by msmisfit:I'm on the NE side of Atlanta and have Charter which presently does not enforce caps. Their base tier though, is 60M for $52 bundled, and $59 I think unbundled. If that interests you at all, ask the realtors where there are Charter areas on the north side. I'm actually in the outskirts of Dacula... it's either AT&T or Comcast, is what I'm being told. Comcast's internet only pricing is kind of bad... (they quoted me $74.95/mo for 25M). I went ahead and got DSLExtreme for $44.95 (18M/1.5M), which is plenty enough for me. |
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Sorry I didn't have any useful info ... I was a little late in joining this forum. I was worried Comcast was going to acquire us for the last year. So glad that fell through. Haven't had a AT&T landline for quite awhile, so I've forgotten about their taxes ... sorry. Welcome to Georgia! |
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