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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> Comcast reserves a specific channel for voice so you certainly get more
> bandwidth than other options, and it doesn't rob your general Internet
> connection, but it's still overpriced $33 per month bullshit if you
> subscribe to television.

Yeah, Comcast is pretty bad with the rates, that package we bought from them
shot up to like $150 a month in the first 3 or 4 months. At least it's been
holding there, but even after a couple calls, they don't care. We didn't
understand the contract according to them, even though ours says "$79.95 for
12 months". That's not what it says, according to them. hmmm.

The thing is though, since we have both the AT&T fake-uverse and the Comcast
service, if someone put a gun to my head and said, pick one, I'd stay with
Comcast and dump AT&T, just for the speed performance alone.

> I'm getting 2.84 Mb/s down, 0.48 Mb/s up, same as DSL, paying $15 per month.

Honestly, for $15 a month, it isn't bad. I mean it's still better than
dialup and you don't have to pay for a 2nd line to get it. The AT&T is
running me $34.95 for the 6/784, but that's like $19.95 for the service, an
additional $15 for the static addresses, then after a year it goes up $20 to
$54.95 a month.

But the problem with that figure is, I think if one can actually break down
the Comcast charges, it's what the cost is for the service I have now, and
that usually is 22mb/3mb. Yeah it slows down, sometimes 18, 12 or less for a
while, then up again, but it still works better than a fixed 6mb.

So it's not really a comparison, Comcast doesn't have anything on the low
end, AT&T does, but after that threshold of $30-$35 a month, the money seems
better spent with Comcast.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com