18psi

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It is a promo, but for a whole year and after that it only goes up to 25/month.

I am truly amazed at how stupid I was paying 60/month for the absolutely WORST customer service company I have ever encountered in my entire life (COMCAST) when I could have been with ATNT all this time. Oh well, better late than never.
No idea lol, but it sure beats the hell out of what I got for 60/month with comcast.


I would much rather gnaw off my own ***** and choke on them and die before I'll go back to comcast.

FRT_Fun

iTrader: (19)

The accuracy of this test is laughable.

Seeing as I just finished downloading a file at 3.8MB/s which should put me at around 38Mb/s on this test...

Oh and my upload is usually around 1MB/s.



Well using Dallas is a little bit better...



The test doesn't go long enough... my **** is usually still climbing when it ends.

x808drifter

$30 a month. (This is going from Oahu to Cali BTW)

Techsalvager

interesting to note that alot of people still aren't aware that telephone compaines are now offering dsl without phone service

Have bellsouth DSL here and I love it, no issues with going up or down, pretty rock solid compared to the local cable co and its offerings.

Plus the DSL is a static ip for no charge, while cable will not offer a static ip to resdential at all.

l_bader

I'd wager most folks that are using cable as their ISP are taking advantage of bundled savings. (ie: TV/Phone/'Net)

A static IP won't matter to most home users.

- L

Newbsauce

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Used to have *** cable - will never go back.

Ben

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AT&T (was originally Bellsouth pre merger) DSL was unreliable at my house with frequent outages, a few of them being long term--as in a week or more, with one lasting nearly a month. When I originally signed up, dry DSL was not available. Post merger, dry DSL was technically available, but AT&T made it difficult to set up. When I finally got them to agree to the service as ordered by law, the price they offered me was the same as what I was already paying for the combined service with phone, so there was no advantage for me.

My AT&T bill was $58/mo for DSL and phone. The voice line was never used.

My Comcast bill is $28/mo including the $5 modem rental fee. My internet service is 15x faster down and 13x faster up than it was with AT&T.

I did not have static IP with AT&T--it was no charge on the higher speed package that was not available in my neighborhood. I do not have static IP with Comcast. Zero sum and it makes no difference to me.

18psi

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Guess its different depending on where you live. In my area Comcast will have outages EVERY SINGLE EVENING most times for more than 2-3 hours. I called them numerous times, and the response was always the same: we are working on it, nothing we can do to help you. Got tired of that after 3 months of "we're working on it". ATNT is excellent and only went down once on me so far, and only for 10 minutes.


My bro has comcast in a completely different part of town and never has problems so yeah.

Joe Perez

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Taken this evening, from a ship at sea roughly 100 miles from land:



Horrible ping times, but the throughput isn't too bad, actually.

chicksdigmiatas

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Ok maybe not 3 but in the interest of proving that San Antonio screws up all the time see the difference between Piney Flats TN and San Antonio TX.



San Antonio Speed Above.

inferno94

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Primus Canada DSL



Part of a 5mb unlimited download (90% have a download cap in Canada) and unlimited North America phone use for $75/mo.

kotomile

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Got a new toy, no more censored internet!

EDIT - Here's the result. Take with a grain of salt, the site insists I'm only ~100 miles from Atlanta...lol.

Godless Commie

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I have an 8Mb ADSL connection in Istanbul.

We'll be getting a 32Mb fiberoptic connection any day now. The cable work is done already.

There are talks of bumping the speed up to 100Mb once all the kinks are worked out.

rider384

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This is the fastest, and ONLY ISP I get out here. This is it for high speed, other option is dial-up.

neogenesis2004

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Thats just because they are running you through a proxy.

Here at the VBC in Baghdad we have to choices. 1) MIT (not the college) that gets you around 100KBps with a 8GB/mo cap for $65. 2) Jackal that has multiple tiers, the highest being 2.5Mbps with around a 12GB/mo cap for $240. I've been using MIT and its good enough to play black ops with a ping of around 170 to servers in Germany and England.



This result is to a local server in Kuwait. Its def inflated. The largest continuous d/l speed I ever get is 100KB.

kotomile

iTrader: (24)

Cool. I didn't know you were in Iraq...

This connection is only available to me in the office, unfortunately. Good part is we run our own show out here so there's not a lot of visibility and as long as work is getting done, we do what we want.

neogenesis2004

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I know what you mean on the visibility part, but I'll leave it at that. Are you out in some FOB with shitty satellite internetz?

Pen2_the_penguin

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$25 a month cable interwebs. Off wireless router. If I connect into my modem directly I see 18mb/s download. Same 1mb/s upload.


edit: Hawaii has a nice connection actually...

NA6C-Guy

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Oh snap. Charter has been advertising another "free upgrade for all customers" on their commercials. Seems they were serious. My down speed is usually only about 14-15 (I assume I was supposed to have 15Mb/s service) and now I'm getting 18. Higher than I have ever seen.

Reverant

iTrader: (10)

Much better than the last time around...I love my ping!