My Earthlink DSL costs me $50/mo. I can get SBC Yahoo (for a year) for $30/mo. That’s $20/m. = $240 savings.
Does anyone have experience with SBC Yahoo? Is there a site where I can compare these services side-by side?
I use an iMac.
Thanks a ton. 
Peace,
mangeorge
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Currently using SBC Yahoo (formerly SBC DSL), no problems with it. If you’re running MacOS X, setup is as easy is plugging the DSL model into your iMac and entering a few numbers in the “Network” preference panel.
Plus, SBC’s tech support is conveniently Mac-savvy, so you don’t have to deal with folks who think the world begins and ends with Microsoft. 
I used to have SBC’s DSL, but got fed up with being kicked offline every 3-4 hours for IP renewal. At the time, the service was $40 a month for dynamic IP. To upgrade to a static IP and thus be able to stay online indefinitely would have required an upgrade to business class at $80 a month, plus a $300 installation fee. Installation of what? The service is already up and running! SBC’s tech support was (two years ago) absolutely horrid and was not able or allowed to comprehend sharing the connection through a router. In order to talk to them, you had to have their buggy Enternet software installed.
I switched to http://www.sonic.net/ and now enjoy always-on static IP, five email IDs and 1200k service for $58 a month. No funny software and no problems. Amusingly, the actual DSL is provided by SBC. Sonic just knows how to make it work better.
Sonic’s got DSL packages starting at $25 a month: http://www.sonic.net/sales/dsl/sbc/index.shtml
If you’re only online with one computer for an hour or two at a time, and are the kind of person that turns off everything when you’re done, SBC will probably be just fine for you. But, if like me, you have multiple machines running 24/7, a static IP is the way to go.
To play counterexample, I don’t have this problem at all. I leave my computer on 24/7, usually putting it to sleep if I’ll be away for long periods, but the dynamic IP doesn’t give me any problems even after all day on the net.
My experience is the direct opposite of yours – before going with SBC DSL, I had a year’s service with DSL Extreme, largely because they also offered a static IP for the same price.
Unfortunately, DSL Extreme’s customer service completely blew – they only fielded DSL questions from 8-5, their customer support rarely followed through on issues, and they only knew how to support Windows PCs. When my DSL line was dying for five hours every weeknight from 8-12, all I got from DSL Extreme was a big fat TFB.
At least with SBC DSL, they have 24 hour customer service, and I fully expect to throttle someone if my service flakes out at 2:00am. Fortunately, their service has been great to me, and they even resolved my line-drop problem within a week of my reporting it.
Depends on whether or not you plan to do remote logins to your computer. When I got my year with my static IP, I found that I rarely used it, and couldn’t really justify it given all the other problems I was having. I get along fine with a dynamic IP these days, though I figure I could always use one of those free IP-mapping services if I need such functionality with SBC DSL.
Thanks for the opinions, folks. I’m leaning towards SBC right now. I’ll look at the site provided by Headcoat tonight and decide for sure. The price is right.
I signed up with SBC Yahoo in December and it has worked great. My speeds are real good as we are real close to the remote terminal. If you go with them just make sure you get rid of the browser and the Connection Manager software and use a router. I have 4-5 computer running through this connection at various times throughout the day.