[Noisebridge-discuss] Broadband in SF: Comcast or Sonic?

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I know it's hard to believe, but ATT (formerly SBCglobal, Pacbell) ADSL has 
worked well for me for nearly 13 years.  I'm not experiencing any port or 
protocol restrictions.
*Currently getting 5-6Mbps/768kbps consistently at 10,000 feet loop length (wire 
distance) from 

the C.O. @ $40/mo.
*At installation time in 1998, in this old building, there were interferer 
issues which kept ADSL from working reliably for about three weeks: bad wiring, 
noisy splices, and a line multiplexer.  Since then, reliability has been good, 
except for the outages.
*Outages - 4 total, the worst was 3 days. There were  two cable vault fires, and 
two Redback rewirings which took out service  for two days.  For those outages, 
I either used dialup service (included, free) or piggybacked onto a 
neighbor-across-the-street's  cable-based wireless -with permission- for the 
duration.
*Started in 1998 with a static IP, but in 2004 switched to dynamic IP service 
for speed and cost reasons. DynDNS have provided good-enough dynamic DNS service 
for my needs, and my  Tomato-based router updates reliably whenever the IP 
address  changes. 

*I'm planning to upgrade my upstream speed with either a switch to cable or with 
tandem  1.5Mbps/1.5Mbps SDSL early in 2011.  Wireless service is just too 
expensive for my budget.
*By comparison, a longtime friend has jumped ship frequently. His story: "I've 
been very happy with Raw Bandwidth since Jan. 2002.Here's a list of some of the 
other ISP's I've used: 


RCN very good 
DNAI excellent 
SLIP.NET sucked 
NETCOM really sucked 
PACBELL really really sucked 
CONCENTRIC really sucked 
METRICOM pretty good "

If money is a concern, the current ATT ADSL Elite (3-6/768) offer is $20/mo for 
new subscribers, for a full year.http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=10891

This is all silly, of course, since FIOS is available - just not here in the 
city.

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From: Josh Berkus <josh at agliodbs.com>
To: jim at systemateka.com
Cc: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
Sent: Mon, December 6, 2010 1:22:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Broadband in SF: Comcast or Sonic?


>    I believe access to their service is not city-wide. 
>    Currently I'm using Speakeasy (about $60 per month 
> for static IP, no port constraints, good service). 

I've been a speakeasy business customer for years.  Service has steadily
declined for the last 3 years; I'm going to switch away from them as
soon as I have the time.

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