[CALUG] Choosing a residential/SMB high speed internet provider

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

I have DirecTV and Comcast for Internet/Phone. When VZ started 
advertising $99 for all 3 services, I wondered why I was paying each 
provider more than that. Well, DirecTV didn't budge much (game me $20 
off), but Comcast is afraid of their customers switching to FIOS, and 
cut their price IN HALF for me. Also, with Comcast, you can keep 
adding/deleting the Basic TV plan (adds maybe $5) and they will give you 
Discounts for a Year or two.

I dunno about VZ, whether they are worried about switching to 
Comcast...and their hands may be tied more by tariffs (but probably 
not), but the bottom line is...

Play Them Off Against Each Other.

JIM

P.S. Comcast is Rock Solid...at least where I live (Damascus)

On 8/7/2012 4:08 PM, benalgo at speakeasy.net wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm considering updating my home internet provider to a more modern one.
>
> I have Comcast Xfinity and Verizon FIOS available.
> Does anyone any recommendations
> based more on their hands on experience with technical/policy/support/reliability
> aspects ?
> [I'm interested more in just the internet service but am not opposed to the
> "bundle" idea]
>
> For example,
> cost/service increases/nickel-and-diming (I have directv and every march the
> price goes up and is WAY beyond the $30/month teaser rate)
>
> usage control/oversight (throttling (supposedly Comcast does this) one reason I
> want the high speed is to download distros and do some intense data
> mining/gathering), or another example would be "exploring" - do they swat your
> hands for this ?) [at a local conference when speaking w/ one of the presenters
> said he used the (true) line that "I do this as part of job" and they left him
> alone thereafter]
>
> various technical aspects such as using one's own (wifi) modem (supposedly
> Verizon did unofficially support this by allowing their modems to be set up in
> bridge mode, not sure about Comcast), IPV6 support (supposedly Comcast offers
> this whereas Verizon doesn't, but does this matter ??), device resets (a friend
> who has FIOS needs to call in after a (sustained) power outage to "reactivate"
> the devices)
>
> And while at the moment this isn't a item, does anyone have any experience w/ the
> "mobile" aspects of these services ?
> [not sure about this at all .. in that I guess the commercials I've seen are more
> oriented for video so I guess the "receiver" acts like a tuner+anyroom
> DVR+slingbox ????]
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback,
> I'll be at the meeting tomorrow if anyone wants to follow up then too,
> Ben
>
>
>
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