cable modem service providers

You can quote me or not, but I will put in a strong recommendation for
AT&T Broadband's cable modem service.  It's only $40/month, often with
signup deals like "first 3 months for $19.99" or "first six months for
$19.99."

I've had cable modem since I moved to Seattle.  Although there have been a
few times where I've had poor service, mainly during my first year, and a
little during the beginning of the second year, the performance of the
cable modem just dwarfs that of DSL.  When downloading from good servers,
I've seen speeds as high as 500 kilobytes per sec.  More likely, I'll get
closer to 100-200 KB/s on good sites.  Any slowness is attributable to the
server end.
Also, I'm assuming that AT&T has hashed out a lot of their problems
regarding outages since there have been so few in the last 10 months or
so.  So reliability isn't much of an issue.

On the other hand, I think AT&T's customer service sucks.  So when there
are problems, it is really frustrating.

Tim

I've had ATT Cable modem for the past two years.

Their customer service is not that great, but as long as it works (which
it has for over half a year now) it is very nice.  $40/month gives you up
to 500KB/s downstream and 14KB/s upstream.  Very low latency to UW too.
Yeah, and you also get a static IP (you can get extras for $5/month each)

Another nice thing is no yearly contract, so if you don't like it you can
cancel anytime (unlike most if not all DSL options).

They also run promotions once in a while where you get the first six
months of service at only 19.95/month.

-Dmitriy

I would like to add yet another voice in favor of AT&T @Home - I have
had my cable modem for ~6 months and had very little trouble with it.
I have been frustrated with customer service, but I found the people
reasonably competent after a long wait time.

They certainly seem to be the cheapest around and to my knowledge beat
most DSL connections in terms of speed.  Upwards of 500kb/s is common
for me, with the occassional 600 to the department.  However, it is
very true that these links are basically one-way - sending large files
is _very_ slow.  But for interactive things (X, ssh, etc) it is more
than enough.

DSL ISPs

Quoth Neil Spring :
> So far, I'm very happy with speakeasy.   2 static ip's

I have to agree with Neil.  I've had Speakeasy for quite some time
because they were willing to give me DSL when USWest-is-now-Qwest was
dragging its feet.  The peak speeds aren't as high as UWest's (384
kbps vs 600-something), but the service is pretty reliable and the
administrators mostly have a clue.

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## Jeremy Buhler * peace through superior algorithms * U. Washington ##

Hi All,

Now that Oz.net is The River and they decided to charge monthly for
static IPs ($25 for 4, ouch!), I'm shopping around for another ISP.  Does
anyone have a recommendation for an ISP (compatible with Qwest DSL) that
is reasonably priced (with a handful of static IPs) and offers decent
performance?

Thanks,
Steve

I use speakeasy.net and have had good luck with them - they give you up to
8 static IP addresses as part of the deal.  Plus the landline phone service
from QWest (aka Qworst) has been so awful in my neighborhood that I really
want to avoid giving them any business if I can help it.

In article , Eric Lemar wrote:

>I've been looking at drizzle, but haven't heard anything first hand about
>them and haven't checked them out in depth yet.  They charge per-ip, but
>at MUCH more reasonable rates than oz.

Here's some first-hand information regarding Drizzle: it rocks. On the advice
of a friend of ours who was happy with the service, we signed up with them
when we started our DSL service. They've been friendly, easy to work with,
and rock-solid. They were ready to roll within a few hours of the DSL box
getting plugged in both in our apartment near campus and at our new place
over on Bainbridge Island. We're paying $20 a year for five static IPs.

I use www.olywa.net and am very happy with them. They give me a /27 subnet
(bundle of 8 static IPs) and reverse DNS lookup for no additional charge.

Stefan