I've had Cable Internet (Cogeco Canada and Time Warner in the San Fernando Valley, CA).
Cable worked ok for me when I had it, however, when I moved 'over the hill' to Santa Clarita, Comcast was VERY pricey, and wouldn't do anything without some huge upfront cost, and a lot of B.S. (e.g. Comcast wouldn't sell me 'access basic' as they claimed it didn't exist in my area
), and wanted a $100 install fee for new service + shipping of equipment + programming fee + a lot of hassle (T.W. didn't have those fees, and you could get a few months of free service by installing yourself)
I went to DirecTv and AT&T (now DSL-Extreme) DSL. DTV has been great - < 10 minutes of outage in 5 years.
DSL has been a mixed bag. AT&T Express was ok for the 1st year, then they wanted to increase my price (so I went to DSL-Extreme), and then I got 'Pro' speeds.
Prices remained stable, but required a basic POTS service. Now, DSL rates are on the rise, and AT&T won't qualify me for anything but 'Express', even though my max sync rate is ~6100/1000kbps.
I would think about going to Uverse from DSL, however, AT&T wants me to jump through hoops to do it.
Since I still have DTV under contract, I would have to order Uverse then cancel and hope that I don't get billed for TV, or lose my internet service (work from home).
I may just go Cable just because I can keep my DSL while cable Internet (doesn't require TV!) is being installed.
Cable worked ok for me when I had it, however, when I moved 'over the hill' to Santa Clarita, Comcast was VERY pricey, and wouldn't do anything without some huge upfront cost, and a lot of B.S. (e.g. Comcast wouldn't sell me 'access basic' as they claimed it didn't exist in my area
), and wanted a $100 install fee for new service + shipping of equipment + programming fee + a lot of hassle (T.W. didn't have those fees, and you could get a few months of free service by installing yourself)I went to DirecTv and AT&T (now DSL-Extreme) DSL. DTV has been great - < 10 minutes of outage in 5 years.
DSL has been a mixed bag. AT&T Express was ok for the 1st year, then they wanted to increase my price (so I went to DSL-Extreme), and then I got 'Pro' speeds.
Prices remained stable, but required a basic POTS service. Now, DSL rates are on the rise, and AT&T won't qualify me for anything but 'Express', even though my max sync rate is ~6100/1000kbps.
I would think about going to Uverse from DSL, however, AT&T wants me to jump through hoops to do it.
Since I still have DTV under contract, I would have to order Uverse then cancel and hope that I don't get billed for TV, or lose my internet service (work from home).
I may just go Cable just because I can keep my DSL while cable Internet (doesn't require TV!) is being installed.