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To: Raptech who wrote (68910)	3/1/2010 4:58:40 PM
From: Ian@SI	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

I switched from DSL to Cable a couple years ago or so. At the time both providers promised me up to 5mbps service. Bell, my DSL provider delivered about 3.5 to 4mbps, but they introduced Traffic Shaping/Throttling or what I'd call "absolutely shitty service to their own customers". I've been with Rogers since. They deliver 9.9mbps consistently; and I've never had a service outage that was noticeable. i.e. - during the day or for more than a few minutes at other times. Essentially it just works. I don't have to sweat anything. [see image of me hitting my head while saying "Knock on Wood"]

To: Raptech who wrote (68910)	3/1/2010 5:29:18 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 110653

I think you covered it Raptech, everyone's service across the country varies within the same Internet supplier. It's hit or miss what you will end up with. Any neighbors or friends in your local area you could talk to? Bring it up in Sunday school class...

To: Raptech who wrote (68910)	3/1/2010 7:05:33 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

I switched to Comcast from Verizon DSL a little over a year ago, Comcast's phone service seems to work just fine except for the occasional reset. Maybe twice in the past year I not had a dial tone--but it was back after a few minutes. I've never had any trouble with the cable modem, though I never did get my router to work--but maybe I'm doing something clutzy. Occasionally I switch internet to a different PC for upgrades and downloads and such, the modem resets no sweat--mine with a toothpick hole on the back to reboot. Not elegant, but what the hell. TV is fine, they shuffle the channels fairly often so that can be a pain, but I get free local over the air HD and those don't seem to move. All the others and you need their cable box. But you can rent an HD set top box for something like $10/mo more. I get the triple play for under $100 plus another $10 for TV5Monde a la carte. Internet is something around 15m/s. My price goes up a notch in a year but Fios will be in the neighborhood by then and there is always a deal. If I were smart I'd have done a gmail account or hotmail or something, that is always a pain each time you move. Everybody always pisses and moans about installation, but the fella who set mine up ran coax the full length of my house right to where I wanted the modem.