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Faster, Internet! Faster!
Apr. 7th, 2008 03:17 pmComcast's new 12mps (12 down / 5 up) service is a little tempting, but at a cost of $149.95 per month, I think ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rvrjoe775 would kill me if I got it.
We currently have their 6/1mps service, which costs me $41.95 per month. While Comcast provides the connection, our actual ISP is Earthlink, though I use none of Earthlinks e-mail addresses or services. Earthlink is a carry over from our old Time Warner account. I only picked Earthlink because they had dial-up numbers in case I was traveling where I couldn't get WiFi or Ethernet. Of course, my current laptop doesn't even have a modem, so the dial-up numbers are pointless.
I'm thinking about switching to the 8/2 mps service, for $10 more, but then I would have to switch to Comcast as my ISP. I've heard stories about Comcast being restrictive about bit torrent downloading and uploading, and about their overly aggressive spam filtering which blocks entire e-mail servers. They reportedly block just about everything from Dreamhost.
Should I switch to Comcast as my ISP? Is the 8mps service really better than the 6?
And no, I don't want to switch to Quest DSL.
rvrjoe775 would kill me if I got it. We currently have their 6/1mps service, which costs me $41.95 per month. While Comcast provides the connection, our actual ISP is Earthlink, though I use none of Earthlinks e-mail addresses or services. Earthlink is a carry over from our old Time Warner account. I only picked Earthlink because they had dial-up numbers in case I was traveling where I couldn't get WiFi or Ethernet. Of course, my current laptop doesn't even have a modem, so the dial-up numbers are pointless.
I'm thinking about switching to the 8/2 mps service, for $10 more, but then I would have to switch to Comcast as my ISP. I've heard stories about Comcast being restrictive about bit torrent downloading and uploading, and about their overly aggressive spam filtering which blocks entire e-mail servers. They reportedly block just about everything from Dreamhost.
Should I switch to Comcast as my ISP? Is the 8mps service really better than the 6?
And no, I don't want to switch to Quest DSL.
