[LUNI] Cable / Dsl

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Hey Richard,

There's two things I can think of suggesting to increase the speed ..

1.   Call sbc and have them make sure you are getting the correct speed 
as per your contract. (That worked for me a while back)

2.   If you are getting a delay resolving pages in the first place, 
switch to an alternative dns. (I am trying out opendns at the moment and 
they are much quicker)

Also, with the price, if you are out of contract and don't mind renewing 
for a couple of years, then you can get the price back down to the 
current promo. You shouldn't be paying more than $19, but I spoke to 
someone last night that is paying $24 because they missed the letter 
that advised them of the price increase if they didn't renew their contract.

Hope that proves helpful


Mark

richard at rushlogistics.com wrote:
> I have sbc dsl and it almost as slow as dial up and they are always sneaking up the price up.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Stuart Burge <mark at msbrepairs.com>
>
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:00:24 
> To:Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion <luni at luni.org>
> Subject: [LUNI] Cable / Dsl
>
>
> So from the 'Cable Modems' thread, it seems like a lot of people are a 
> touch disgruntled with their ISP.
>
> So that begs the question..
>
> Why so many cable users ?
>
>
> I am interested to know what you all ultimately pay for the broadband 
> connection of choice.
>
> Myself, I have been using sbc's dsl for about 4 years now and pay an 
> average of about $40 / month inc the phone line
>
> Broken down, thats $10 line charge, $19 dsl and the rest split between 
> call charges and taxes.
>
> I regularly download iso files without needing to use torrent and the 
> modem that came with it was brand new and mine to keep.
> Down time I think was about 20 minutes one day (the only time it has 
> ever been down in 4 years to my recall)
>
> On the negative side, I would say that I need to reboot the router now 
> and then (maybe once a month max), possibly due to spikes or something, 
> but I think that is just hardware.
> Oh, and their default dns is a little slow, but nothing that opendns 
> can't remedy.
>
> Every time sbc(att whatever) decide to increase the price, I call them 
> and start a new contract to bring the price down  to the new promo, 
> which usually works out cheaper still.
>
>
> So,
>
> I am assuming there must be a good reason why so many people are using 
> cable.
>
> Is it for a static IP?  for higher upload speeds ? 
>
> (or maybe att can't scrape off the ameritech from their shoes and it is 
> leaving a bad smell in the room)
>
>
>