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On 10/29/14 12:23 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:39:45 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 10/29/14 11:35 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 05:27:46 +0000, RGrew176
wrote:

The city that I live in we have access to ATT Uverse, WOW, Comcast,
Dish, Direct TV so there are choices at least in my home city.

I have the choice of Comcast, Dish, DirectTV or the phone company that
swears it can send me TV/Internet over Cat 3 copper.
My DSL only runs about 10 meg but it does it all the timer, not like
Comcast that swings between 100 meg and zero. When I had comcast, my
error log file overflowed a couple times a week because of the number
of failed updates from my weather station. The connection is spotty at
best and customer service is lousy.

Our choices here are Comcast, DSL, and satellite. DSL is slow, and
several of my neighbors with Dish or the other one say satellite is
"flakey" when the weather is bad. Comcast is OK, but it does go down
whenever there is a power outage in our area, mainly because its cables
are carried on the main street utility poles, and not enough effort is
expended to chop down trees near those wires.

Comcast has "offshored" much of its telephone tech support. That sucks.

The main difference for me is the Dish breaks up during a big storm.
The Comcast cable stays down for weeks after the storm.
My neighbor even offered to share his fast Comcast connection with me
if he could use my slow DSL connection when Comcast was down.
They have 3 commercial accounts at my wife's club and their service is
no better than a single family residence,

Usually, when our cable goes down because of trees falling on the
electric wires, the cable comes back up shortly after our rinky-dink
electric co-op's contractors get the powerline wires back up.

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