>>>>> "Robby" == Robby Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Robby> That's always been my reason for not going with DSL. Didn't Robby> want a phone also. I'd be interested in price/speed comparisons Robby> if that wasn't the case now. My understanding is that upstream (in Qwest-land) has improved recently and can now be substantially better than with Comcast at the low end. Downstream has also improved recently (1.5Mbps?) with DSL, and is still probably not quite as good as Comcast. I have had both for about three years. Recently, I have had numerous cable outages and no DSL outages. I am probably about to finally ditch the Comcast, but haven't quite gotten around to it yet. Having both does provide a certain robustness, but it isn't cheap. Another option is Speakeasy. My understanding is that they use a non-Qwest (Covad??) carrier and you never talk to the phone company at all. Another thing to consider is whether you want to share service via wifi (ala personaltelco.net). On Comcast this is verboten, but numerous DSL services are fine with it, including aracnet, speakeasy, etc. -- Russell Senior ``I have nine fingers; you have ten.'' [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
