Floid
join:2002-02-11
Ridgefield, CT
| Broadband in CT: Any definitive list?
Tossing this here since it'd be a bit OT for the SNET/SBC/AT&T forum...
It looks like I (via the bit of my family I live with) may be moving down to Stamford shortly, and I'm tasked with figuring out the whole ISP/TV/phone morass. There's certainly something to be said for sticking with Ma Bell  but I'm finding it's hard to get a complete and serious list of all the options for broadband in CT. (Note, for instance, that the top results in DSLR/BBR's 'Database' are all Covad resellers two states away.)
Obviously, there's always:
* AT&T
* Incumbent Cable Provider [Seems like Cablevision/Optimum in Stamford]
...but beyond that, all I'm aware of is Netplex still alive and kicking with a DSL product tightly coupled to AT&T's mode d'emploi. I thought I'd heard of Verizon sending tendrils into Fairfield County but apparently they don't reach Stamford yet.
So as far as high speed Internet, are there any options worth considering that are missing from this list? Or is this just the (condensed, duopotastic) state of the market these days?
For our purposes I'm open to considering services up to $100/mo if they'd break 10mbit by a fair margin... or at least, it'd be good to know if they exist. |
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Kommie
join:2003-05-13
East Haven, CT
1 edit | Fios is in Stamford to the Offices right off I95 but thats about it  |
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Floid
join:2002-02-11
Ridgefield, CT
| Huh. Guess this means the residential areas closest to the highway will have that option first... but I'm not sure if that's worth the tradeoffs of living closer to the highway.
I noticed subcontractors stringing what looked like fiber up past our office to the neighborhood(s) we're looking at last year, in the "middle of town a mile or two north of the highway" area, but that's probably for U-Verse or some special unobtainium deployment. |
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DrStrange
Technically feasible
Premium
join:2001-07-23
West Hartford, CT | reply to Floid
Try the 'find service' option on this site and plug in your new ZIP code.
If you're close enough to a telco central office where an ILEC such as Covad has equipment, you can get DSL from that ILEC or one of its resellers. |
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cowboyro
join:2000-10-11
Shelton, CT
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·Comcast
 ·Optimum Voice
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With AT&T U-Verse you can get 18/2. With Cablevision you can get 30+/5. U-Verse has the whole-house DVR which kicks ass (I have it now). Until last year I've had Cablevision and I was sorry to leave it when I moved. I'd take the TV service of AT&T over Cablevision and teh internet of Cablevision over AT&T... |
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signmeuptoo
Folding and Crunching Not just Breakfast
Premium
join:2001-11-22
LOSTinSpace
clubs:  | Does U-Verse come with as many channels as, say, Dish Network? |
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tito
join:2006-07-03
Waterford, CT
·AT&T U-Verse
1 edit | I have U-Verse, and the package I have is called the U-200 package, and it gets about 200 channels. The top package is the U-450 package. I'm not sure if that's 450 channels, but I think that it's pretty close!
I've had it since November of 2007, and aside from having to call technical support a couple times for internet issues and once for a set top box issue, have had very good luck.
If you go to uverse.att.com, you can explore the service furthur. |
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Floid
join:2002-02-11
Ridgefield, CT
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Heh, well, from the responses above, this mostly served to prove that it's a duopoly for "wired" service. I did notice Speakeasy (who end up deploying via Covad, right?) offer a DSL+VoIP package that's probably somewhat competitive, as far as including the 'premium' feature of static IPs. Maybe some lesser-knowns also have something like that.
See here for answers on how U-Verse "works:"
»Re: FAQ needed! - and from the peanut gallery..
... after giving it some thought, I'm a little leery of having MS-based set-top-boxes on the same 'LAN' as regular machines in an otherwise MS-free house, but that's just personal paranoia and an equal concern with any true IPTV system - either you trust the STBs or you have to take appropriate steps to isolate them. |
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