I would say it depends. I left Comcast and moved to AT&T ADSL about a year ago and have been very happy. I left because Comcast service in my neighborhood had gotten to a point where I was loosing service every 3-4 weeks. The final kick for me was when I called to report an outage and the automated system told me that they had too many calls and instead of giving me an option to wait on hold just hung up. So far I have not experiences AT&T's support after one little install issue and that is really what I want. the one support call was quick and courteous. I personally believe phone companies do a better job of keeping service up and working than the cable companies do.
Having said that if you are not having trouble with Comcast it may be better to just stick with Comcast if you can get them to reduce your rates. After all there is no guarantee that you won't bee one of the lucky DSL customers that has problems every time it rains or has some other type of odd behavior from time to time. I've been lucky but not everyone is. As for speed I have 6meg and for anything but large downloads I really can't tell the difference between DSL and Cable. If you live in a particularly active neighborhood the bandwidth bottleneck being at the CO instead of your local neighborhood (the old cable is a shared pipe argument) can at least in theory make DSL faster during peek times. When I first got DSL I had issues with streaming content being choppy and I called support. They had to send a line tech to do something or other and since then it has been great. If I remember correctly line noise was causing a lot of lost/corrupt packets but I could be wrong. A year has passed and much like when I talk to my users I assume the AT&T techs try to simplify things for me the idiot end user. On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:20 PM, xor <johnw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I currently have Comcast cable as an internet provider, and have had > Comcast for the better part of 10 years. > > Currently AT&T is offering a $125 rebate to anyone who switches to one > of their DSL packages. In addition they are offering $100 to > subscribe to their DSL Ultra package or better. > > I currently have landline service with AT&T, so I qualify for the > rebates. > > DSL Ultra is 1.5 Mbs up and 256 down. ($33/mo) > DSL Extreme is 3 Mbs up and 384 down. ($38/mo) > DSL Extreme 6 is 6 Mbs up and 512 Kbps down. ($43/mo) > > I'm thinking the middle DSL Extreme would be sufficient. > > With $225 in rebates, would it be worth the switch to DSL, or should I > just keep Comcast & be happy with it. Each month the $43 bill from > Comcast comes in & it seems a bit steep. > > Also, I've heard that Comcast will drop your rate for a few months if > you call them & want to drop their service. Is that true? > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
