My internet provider is aol. Sometimes it sucks. What is your provider and what is good about it?
Comcast. Despite the general poor opinion of their service (and high prices, which I can attest too), I haven’t had any problems at all with their high-speed Internet for the two year’s I’ve had it.
Then again, my friend down the street has had nothing but headaches. As always, YMMV.
Heh.
I used to have Suscom, but then recently Suscom was bought out by Comcast. I had Comcast for TV cable when I used to live in Baltimore, and their service was so crappy and overpriced that when I moved, I chose Suscom only because it wasn’t Comcast. I was tempted to immediately go out and find a new ISP as soon as I found out Comcast was taking over Suscom, but I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt.
As soon as Comcast physically took over the network, my internet speeds dropped. In all honesty, though, despite the fact that my connection speed has gone down quite a bit, I don’t really notice the difference. My kids do, because they play a lot of online games and they can feel the lag.
Comcast provides my tv cable as well as internet, and so far I haven’t noticed any other problems with them other than my internet connection speed. I’ll stick with them for now.
Comcast has started advertising on tv about how blazingly fast their internet is. Every time I see one of their annoying ads I’m tempted to call them up and vent a good ten minute pit worthy rant and rave about them and their “fast” internet. Up to 7 times faster than DSL my ass. I guarantee you that if I had DSL right now I’d be faster.
SpeakEasy DSL.
Good: Fantastic support. Nearly-perfect uptime (I’ve had it for three months. It’s been down for less than half an hour - my desktop monitors its connectivity so I know it’s been down even if I’m not at home at the moment). Speed close to advertised. One thing to remember is when you buy broadband, the speed they list is the speed they’ll try to get you to their access point - what your actual speed is to the rest of the world is debatable. I regularly clock in at 80%+ of my advertised speed, while my friends with SBC and ComCast are usually down around 30-40%.
Cons: Really fscking expensive. $55/month, month-to-month, no contract price to bring that down.
I have Yahoo SBC DSL. It depends, obviously, on where you live, but I get a pretty good deal out of them. For $30 a month I get their middle-range option and my landline phone line. For $80 I got a DSL modem that was also a home network router, with plugs for four lines and four wireless connectors. As I have a MacBook with a wireless card in it, that worked out really well for me. I also got $50 back on the modem after I sent in a coupon.
I’m quite fond of them; so far I’ve had them two months and I haven’t had it actually go down on me, like I did with my last high-speed provider (Charter cable Internet; we have a saying in my family that goes something like “I WISH --insert significant other’s name-- WENT DOWN AS OFTEN AS CHARTER DID!”). Occasionally I get a page that the system needs to be rebooted on my end, so I click a button on a web page and it resets the system in about two minutes. Great speeds and I have yet to have even attempted to hit my bandwidth limit.
~Tasha
If you’re in California, have a look at sonic.net for DSL. I’ve been with them for over five years and on the rare times I’ve ever had trouble, their support staff has been excellent.
I like 'em because they’re a small local company.