Formula3000
join:2003-11-20
Rocklin, CA | DSL Service Suggestion
Anyone could recommend me an excellent DSL provider in Sacramento area? Thanks! |
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McSummation
Mmmm, Zeebas Are Tastee.
Premium,MVM
join:2003-08-13
Round Rock, TX | Who's your land line telco? |
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LBDSL
Lightning Bolt
VIP
join:2002-01-07
Auburn Hills, MI
| feel free to PM me, and I can test your location and I can see what DSL options you may have. I'll check your distance, and let you know what carriers have DSLAM's in your CO
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drake
drizzy
Premium,MVM
join:2002-06-10
Brooklyn, NY | reply to Formula3000
It depends, the Land Line Telco is either Verizon or SBC Communications.
You can also find services here -- »/search |
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Formula3000
join:2003-11-20
Rocklin, CA | reply to McSummation
The SBC Pacific Bell serves the area, and the cable served by Comcast. |
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McSummation
Mmmm, Zeebas Are Tastee.
Premium,MVM
join:2003-08-13
Round Rock, TX | In that case SBC would be your DSL provider, too. There's information in their forum: »AT&T West |
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AlphaOne
I see
Premium
join:2004-02-21
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Are you close to Roseville ?
Try Surewest, and check if fiber optic is in your area.
Got SBC Yahoo! recently, and modem syncs at 6016/608, provided you're close to CO or RT, AND your line can handle it.
Comcast just upgraded Sacramento to 3300/256, if you don't know yet.
dslextreme doesn't offer the 6mbps in the area yet, but they do offer 384-1.5/128-384 package.
Hope this helps.
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Formula3000
join:2003-11-20
Rocklin, CA
| Thank you. I appreciate all the helps. So, among SureWest, DSL Extreme, Comcast, and SBC Yahoo, which one will you recommend? I notice the rate on DSLreports.com. But, is there one among those 4 anyone of you will recommend regardless of the rate on this site? Thank you again. |
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MoJeeper
The Stig in 2012
Premium
join:2000-10-20
Springfield, MO
 ·AT&T Wireless Broa..
·Alltel Axess
·Cingular Wireless
| The Tech support for SBC on BBR's is the Finest, IMHO It out weighs any other provider. Having Had PacBell-SBC going on 4 years I would steer towards SBC just for the fact they own all the infrastructure.
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succotash
Premium
join:2002-12-14
Monterey Park, CA
| There aren't very many reviews of SureWest here on DSLR, and what reviews there are have been somewhat mixed, to say the least, but if I lived in the Sacramento/Roseville area and if the SureWest fiber-optic network were available in my neighborhood, I'd be sorely tempted. I mean, we're talking 10Mbps/10Mbps bandwidth here for $50/month. |
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AlphaOne
I see
Premium
join:2004-02-21
| reply to Formula3000
Surewest, hands down. Nobody beats an all-fiber network, you're lucky if they have fibers in your neighborhood.
From what I heard, you can get high speed interent, cable, and telephone services from them.
Well, Comcast and SBC are my only options (I have both right now, but will cancel comcast soon). I went with SBC because of the new rates (6106/608), otherwise I'm satisfied with Comcast's 3300/256.
But I wish SBC manages the email, as I'm not really into the Yahoo mail brand. It made the service cheap, in my opinion.
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs: | How did it make the service cheap?? I think the SBC/Yahoo is actually one of be best comapared to comcast, verizon, charter, etc. |
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AlphaOne
I see
Premium
join:2004-02-21
| Ok cool down, that's just an opinion.:D
Take note that I never compared it from other broadband providers.
What I'm basically saying is that I would have prefer if SBC manages the email service ... not Prodigy, not Yahoo.
That's all I said.
Obviously, SBC just want to offer the network, but won't provide "content". Right ? It's not it's forte.
I don't have problems with SBC per se.
Now, don't get me wrong, as I do have multiple Yahoo accounts myself. It's free, and it works.
I might have use the wrong term, and I apologize. Forget about the word "cheap" for now.
My only regret is that I can't check my emails from work, as Yahoo and possibly Hotmail are being blocked/filtered by enterprise firewalls. That's a fact we can't argue with.
Why it's being blocked? CIOs and CSOs know why, and we can't argue with that.
By the way, I can login and check my Comcast emails at work. Enterprise firewalls allows it.
I still love my SBC DSL. I rest my case.
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs:
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T CallVantage
·Comcast Digital Vo..
 ·Comcast
| Same w/me here at work all free mail services are blocked. I can check my domain email still. Users can check there comcast account.
An alternative is use a webmail checker...can't remember what it is off the top of my head. You can usually use those and have it check your yahoo email.
Personally I don't use my sbc email that much I use my domain email. I was still rather upset not being able to check yahoo at work.
As a whole I think the yahoo email is great much better then most IMO. The fact you can't check it at work isn't there fault it's corp. BS and people not protecting there network very well.
Reason at our company was because of virus's. Yet we used free email service because our email is routed to germany then back. This has always caused delays or no email going to clients. Yet we use free service and no issues. That's a whole other issue  |
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