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Posted on 07-23-07 05:56:00 PM Link | Quote
Drag's Post #34
Ever hear those "Cable competes, we all win" commercials? We get those a lot here.

They're right, actually... if there's no competition (which there isn't, in my area), then there's no reason for any work to be done speedily or any price cuts or anything. Comcast knows there's no alternatives, so they can actually afford to have numerous service outages and they can take their sweet time with it, because there's nothing we can do. There's nothing to switch to, except Verizon DSL, which is slower, and there's no competition of that either here, so they can do the same thing.

High-speed internet as a whole is in somewhat of a poor state in America.

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Posted on 07-23-07 05:57:30 PM Link | Quote
Well, I had Comcast and ended up switching to Verizon DSL- I don't really notice any speed difference, though I suppose I might if I downloaded large files often... and it does seem more stable on the whole (now, if my wireless network worked...)

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Posted on 07-23-07 05:58:19 PM Link | Quote
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Wireless networks were always the easiest for me to get going... it was the actual internet that was a pain.

We have Embarq here, but it's just as nonamey as many other things Split off from Sprint a while ago.

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