Who do I contact about the wireless access? I've got comcast right now
and I hate it. I would get DSL but the CO by my house is too old to
support it.
-Mike
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 10:17, Linux Rocks! wrote:
> On Saturday 11 December 2004 02:48 pm, John Sechrest wrote:
> : There are bunches of ISP's that are able to resell Qwest
> : services, so you never need to deal with Qwest. You get the
> : reliability and stability of DSL with a user support group
> : which has nothing to do with Qwest.
> :
> : I recommend this, since this is the only local alternative.
> : local ISP's are blocked from reselling comcast.
> :
> : If you want to support the local ISP that has broad band, DSL
> : is the one path.
> :
> : Unless you live in an area that has a wireless ISP service.
>
> There is wireless (wifi), and there is also satelite for broadband internet,
> however both were prohibitivly expensive for home use. I havnt checked in a
> couple years however.
>
> Jamie
>
>
> :
> :
> :
> : perdurabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> :
> : % That's cool. I'll go with Comcast even if it's slightly slower
> : % upspeed, just because I dislike Qwest so much.
> : %
> : % /per
> : %
> : %
> : % On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:40:37 -0800 (PST), Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> : wrote: % > Inside scoop... Comcast is going to 4Mbps down, 384K up in
> : % > January. The "pro/family" plan for $10 more is going to 5 down
> : % > and 768k up. At the same time, no low cost slower plan will be
> : % > introduced which we've only mentioned they need 20,000 times
> : % > over to win even more customers.
> : % >
> : % > That be all,
> : % > Mr O.
> : % >
> : % > --- perdurabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : % >
> : % > > For day-to-day and uploading, I find that my Qwest 1.5dn/896up
> : % > > DSL is
> : % > > faster than my "3mbps" Comcast internet service was. I assume
> : % > > this
> : % > > probably has to do with the greater uplink bandwidth for all
> : % > > that
> : % > > ACKing. If we're talking raw download speeding for large
> : % > > files,
> : % > > though, Comcast clearly wins. In addition, their customer
> : % > > support is
> : % > > lightyears better than Qwest's.
> : % > >
> : % > > /per
> : % >
> : % >
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