Re: Multiple broadband services OK

"Christopher Muto" wrote:
"Timothy Daniels" wrote:
"mdp" wrote:
I'm paying about $10 more per month for cable than I did with DSL but I'm getting over 10x speed increase
(768K vs. 8000K).


In my condo building, Earthlink's ADSL comes in at
around 2Mbps late at night for a neighbor, and about
4Mbps on my Comcast cable. I'm sorry, I don't know
right now what level of service my neighbor pays for,
but I think it's the 3.0Mbps level. I pay $57/mo including
tax, and he pays $35 before tax. On a per Mbps basis,
he pays more, but since I don't download a lot of large
files, his speed would be fine for me. What really makes
me take pause is that the Earthlink news server seems
to have become an orphan with poor performance and
poor support, so I have to factor in the cost of a
subscription with GigaNews to compare Earthlink with
Comcast.

i suspect that your neighbors Comcast internet cable pricing
is dependant on the level of television and/or internet phone
service he is getting. without the additional services it is
about $10 more making it essentially the same as your dsl line.
that's the price earthlink sees themselves as competing with.


No, *I'm* the guy with the Comcast cable ISP, and the
*neighbor* is the guy with the Earthlink DSL. My DSL price
of $57/mo is high because I have no cable TV and no cable
telephone. Since I wouldn't use cable telephone for BOTH
of my 2 telephone lines and since I don't need and don't have
all the Call Waiting and Voicemail and Call Forwarding, etc.
bells and whistles on my POTS lines, cable telephone would
cost much more than my 2 SBC POTS lines. But $57/mo for
cable ISP still makes me squirm, and that's why I'm always
open to considering DSL. But as I pointed out, the comparison
is not simple due to Earthlink's lousy news server and the
prospect of a discount for cable TV if I should subscribe. And
now I find that I can get a discount from the phone company
on a DirecTV subscription.... and on it goes.

*TimDaniels*

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