Almost AoHell-Time

Post #55,610 by lordbeatnik 10/8/02 8:55:32 PM Reply	Almost AoHell-Time_Whiner free A couple of weeks ago I cancelled cable TV from Time Warner. I'd been procrastinating about whether or not I should ditch cable and get adsl and maybe a dish. The impending death of farscape gave me the motivation to make a move. I've now got an adsl hookup from Britsys, a small network company based here in Durham. If all goes well, I'll be calling up TW at the end of the week to kill my cable modem so I can be free from that bloated, arrogant beast. My cable modem would already be dead if I hadn't had line problems. The adsl modem would only sync early in the morning. Once it had sync, it would usually last the day, but it was a real annoyance. It turns out the problem was the phone line in my house. After I swapped the phone line connections to use the extra phone line pairs, The adsl modem came right up. So barring another problem, I'll soon be kissing TW good bye. And the best part is I really don't miss cable TV. Why was I wasting good money on such overpriced crap? David "LordBeatnik"
Post #55,623 by ben_tilly 10/8/02 9:20:23 PM Reply	Nowhere near here Only viable local choices are Roadrunner Cable or Verizon's DSL. Of the two I prefer Roadrunner - their service actually works. A good image is that both are evil monopolies, but at least AOL uses condoms... Cheers, Ben "Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly." - [link\|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html\|Walter Mead]
Post #55,641 by gdaustin 10/8/02 10:31:28 PM Reply	Frisco, TX I have AT&T cable internet. The quality of service remained the same, but the amount of offerings (multiple IP's, static IP's) simply disappeared after the @home bankruptcy and subsequent transfer of service to AT&T. SBC is offering DSL in the area, but I'm really hesitant to move from the frying pan into the fire. My only consolation is that the SBC repair guy lives 2 doors down from me, and he services my box (actually, he's the manager for all service in our town now). So, the advantage might be that I might get quicker repairs if it does break. But, again, SBC will happily sell me a single DHCP connection for $29.95 a month. However, if I want an "expanded" service offering (more IP addresses or static IP addreses), a $400 installation fee applies, plus $65 a month in a guaranteed 2 year contract. I miss having multiple IP addresses (even if both are DHCP), because then I can have my work computer VPNed and my home computer accessing native Internet at the same time. But, I really can't convince my wife that it's worth $400 plus $65 a month for the next two years. I can't complain about the service, it's on 99.95% of the time. But, I can't really ask for additional IPs from AT&T because they can't seem to make it work (already tried and paid for service for 3 months and it never worked). It seems they can just get their basic DHCP service working and not much more... I guess they've never heard of a subnet?

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