In my area we have both SBC Yahoo DSL and Comcast Cable Internet available. Their both high speed internet, but Comcast is supposedly much faster. Is this true and what is the difference in speed exactly for both downloads and uploads?
It depends on what DSL plan you get. For example I have Yahoo DSL and it's 6Mbit... but you can also get it as slow as 1.5Mbit.
I used to work for *cough* SBC, and sold DSL for a living.... they have 3 tiers, but they won't offer you 6mb. You have to ask for it, and if its available or not will depend on your area. right now I heard they have DSL for 12.95/month. can't go wrong there. If you're paying more, you can get it rerated as well by calling cust service.
Actually, they just started offering the 6Mbit as a normal plan again in December (it was not available for about 2 years). It's the "DSL Expert Plus" plan.
you're in Cali though...its different for each market, I'd call and ask Here in the midwest market, the need for residental 6mb isn't in high demand as much..
More importantly, SBC is bringing fiber to my door for phone service (no copper wires)... I just thought I would rub that in. heh http://www.digitalpoint.com/~shawn/2006/01/fiber-to-my-door.html
I'll probably be getting Verizon fiber soon too. They're advertising it as 14 mb/s for $44.95. I wonder if there would be any difference at all, my Comcast already is up to 6mb/s down. I think any bottlenecks I experience are on the other side of things already.
I think you have to do this after your year long contract ends, right? We signed up a few months ago when it was $19.95.
yeah it is a year contract, however they will "rerate you" if you agree to extend your year contract from that date, but who would complain to pay $12.95 or $14.95 instead of 19.95?
My SBC Yahoo DSL is NEVER down, and my Charter Cable is down occasionally. It gets cut off when the phone rings though, and they said that wouldn't happen - which can really suck if an application gets cut off, but my house is old and wired a bit funny...
Is that VOIP or a regular cordless phone? If it's a traditional cordless phone, and you have a wireless router on the same frequency, it can cause havoc. I had to switch my phone to 2.4ghz from 5.8ghz, so it's not on the same frequency as my linksys router.
Can anyone tell me what Comcast Cable charges them and what speed they have? I see their ads say $19.99, but that's only for 6 months...
Comcast charges me $42.95 a month, and that's discounted because I have their cable tv service as well. It's over $50 if you don't. Not exacly cheap. As for speed, I believe we were just upgraded to 6Mbit. No complaints about that, and the service has been very reliable. I'm looking at DSL, especially because of the great promotional price, but I don't have a landline phone line active. Anyone know how much extra it would be to have the most basic phone line so I can have dsl? I don't think they sell it just by itself. Thanks.
US$44.95 for a 14 Mbps service? Right here in Singapore, the same price (around SG$76) can only fetch a 6.5 Mbps on my local cable provider! I dream of the day they build a direct pipe from the US direct to my house.
I looked at both cheap dsl and comcast and currently have comcast because the cheap dsl was much slower on the download. What dsl package are you looking at and what is the cost difference? The one complaint i have with comcast is the limited upload speed which i am sure they do to prevent you from hosting at home. It makes uploading large sites painful when you know that the bandwidth is there but they aren't giving it to you. Otherwise i will have to say that comcast has been very reliable and i have have had them for years (in various flavors of owners, mediaone/at&t/comcast etc)
I'd go with DSL. Cable seems to be influxiated with users and televisions. Also, seems like its down or slow a lot too. I guess that's because its used so much!? At least around here it is. I have Verizon DSL and I'm very happy. It is much faster than cable, downloads and page loading speeds. My friends are always complaining how crappy their cable internet service is or how slow it is..
By the way, the ads that you see for $19.99 only apply if you have Cable TV with Comcast. Without that you pay $29.99. I really didn't need another reason, but rhat's one more reason to go with DSL.