I am paying Comcast 100 bucks a month for Web and phone, no TV. This is too much. If you are paying a nice chunk less, please let me know with whom. As always, thanking you, my kind Doper fellows.
$25/month for ATT DSL.
I was paying about $35 a month for 6meg service from Sonic.net until I moved away.
For $80 a month, they also offer 30meg service with a product called Fusion. Not cheap, but if you want fast…
They’re a great company - I was truly sad when I had to go with AT&T here.
Yeah, my experience with ATT broadband has been mediocre at best.
Considering the wide range of speeds covered by high speed you should say what speed your looking at. The price goes up accordingly.
I have no issues with AT&T DSL here in Illinois. My speeds are consistanly at 5.0mbs and I always play AT&T off against Comcast. I call up AT&T and threaten to move to Comcast and they give me half off the elite package. You might want to bluff them like that
You might want to look around at DSL Reports (Dot) Com in their forums for additonal ideas. (Note: It says DSL but they deal with all kinds of broadband and other phone services as well)
I have AT&T as well, at the 1.5G/s tier. It actually works quite well for 99% of my internet activity. The most bandwidth-intensive thing I do is stream or download TV content (legally, of course!), and 1.5G/s allows me to do this in less time than it takes to watch it, making it essentially live. I’m thinking of upgrading to the next tier which is 3G/s; YMMV but for me they said it would only be $7 a month more, or close to that.
You might want to check any other equipment you have jacked to the same telephone number–cable/satellite boxes, faxes, phones, etc. Make sure you have DSL filters on all of those, because if you have a non-filtered apparatus, even if it’s plugged into a different jack, it will seriously degrade your DSL throughput. We had one DirecTV box connected to a second jack in a different room, but without the filter, and it cut throughput by half. The DSL filter isn’t just for the phone or TV box it’s connected to, it’s also to protect the modem from interference. If you find anything like that, try out a before-and-after test with Speedtest.net, and you’ll probably be very happy with the improvement.
Ditto. Never had a problem, but we don’t do giant bandwidth activities. We’re stuck, since got one of the very first Worldnet accounts (my actual last name, no numbers) and if we moved we’d have to pay to keep it.
ETA: 1.5 Mb, not Gb. Also I forgot the OP was looking for just Bay Area answers so my answer is not entirely relevant.
I used to pay around $40 for comcast cable, though I forgot the speed (this was several years ago). Then I moved to Japan and laugh at your silly american internets. I pay $45 for 100mbps FIOS now (which is useful for me cause I like to play xbox live with my friends back home, helps us keep in touch and shit talk just like we used to)
Comcast had been prevented from throttling your service based on the content by the FCC. The courts recently ruled Comcast can do this.
After jumping through a shitload of hoops, finally resorting to [shudder] “live chat,” I found that I was paying 42.95 for 12 mbps +5 bucks to “rent a modem,” which is not that bad. They are getting 45 a month from me for the damn phone. I thought it was more like 66/33. Well then. Thanks all for your answers. Next question is, since Ms. Two will not let me cancel the home line, how can I get decent service for less than that?
I had their Double Play service for $99/month for the first year, then it went up to like, $170. I called to cancel the phone service (that we never use), and they offered to drop the price with no drop in service. Try just giving them a call and say “what can you do for me?”