Joined: 01 Feb 2006Posts: 677Location: Seattle, WA
I am paying $180 per month for a 256k connection here in Iraq so I can finally catch up on this forum and post some new info on .83 in Al Anbar. I guess I am helping the local economy, or something. The best advice in Seattle is find a neighbor and share a comcast connection, unless you are downloading Gigs of porn per day you will not notice that it is split between two or three households.
tehschkott
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:26 pm
daywalkerJoined: 09 Nov 2007Posts: 6108Location: Hatertown
Hayduke wrote:
...unless you are downloading Gigs of porn per day you will not notice that it is split between two or three households.
Uh, what else are we supposed to do with the internet? If not for porn, the internet wouldn't exist in any form that we recognize today.
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MyNameIsJeff
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:27 pm
BOOSH!Joined: 17 Jul 2007Posts: 2042Location: Nearest bar.
"If all the porn was taken off the internet, there would be only one site, called Bring back the porn!"
Alex
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:11 pm
Joined: 18 May 2006Posts: 3128Location: Roosevelt
langston wrote:
I've used Speakeasy for years, they are quite decent. They are sharecropping the existing DSL infrastructure so you are liable to the same traffic problems as Comcast, et al. Their customer service is top-notch and rates are market-average. They also do not charge for multiple ISPs, wireless, will give you a free modem and are a friendly local company. Local is what sold me, I'm a big fan of the little guy.
Speakeasy is owned by Best Buy. They are as local as Magnolia Hi-Fi (also owned by Best Buy).
I was a Speakeasy customer for about 10 years and liked them because they have good support people answer the phone and don't care if you run servers. Their prices are high high high. My Comcast Business line is $45 cheaper/mo and 10x/3x faster.
I hate Comcast in many ways, but I really like my internet service with them. I'm not on a consumer line though, and I can't really comment how those are. The business support guys are great and the prices are great.
alex
joby
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 6:53 am
goes to elevenJoined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 3899Location: The Cloud
Alex wrote:
langston wrote:
I've used Speakeasy for years, they are quite decent. They are sharecropping the existing DSL infrastructure so you are liable to the same traffic problems as Comcast, et al. Their customer service is top-notch and rates are market-average. They also do not charge for multiple ISPs, wireless, will give you a free modem and are a friendly local company. Local is what sold me, I'm a big fan of the little guy.
Speakeasy is owned by Best Buy. They are as local as Magnolia Hi-Fi (also owned by Best Buy).
alex
They were still local when Langston posted this three years ago.
-jason
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:23 am
Command-Line KiddJoined: 17 Feb 2009Posts: 260Location: The Internet
joeball wrote:
Comcast is looking cheapest at $19.95 for 3 moths then $42.95 thereafter.
Any last minute reasons to turn away from Comcast?
I just set up the Comcast a month and a half ago and got 12 months for $24.95. I've been happy with it so far, though I hear they cap at 250 gigs of traffic per month and unless you just leave bittorrent seeding shitloads of porn 24 hours a day you should be fine.
I will say it was a pain in the ass to get those jerks to show up and hook my cable up though.
MyNameIsJeff wrote:
I'm just jumping right into Fuck Comcast.
I hear all this shit about Comcast throttling and being evil though I've never noticed it. My bittorrent traffic has never been throttled in any significant way, or at least that I've ever noticed. This was true on the east coast as well. If you're trying to run any servers don't bother unless you're going to run them on non standard ports (what I do).
joeball
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:33 am
Joined: 24 Jul 2005Posts: 6037Location: Ether
regular taco wrote:
joeball wrote:
Comcast is looking cheapest at $19.95 for 3 moths then $42.95 thereafter.
Any last minute reasons to turn away from Comcast?
I just set up the Comcast a month and a half ago and got 12 months for $24.95.
I will say it was a pain in the ass to get those jerks to show up and hook my cable up though.
How did you swing that deal or where can I say I saw it?
regular taco wrote:
I will say it was a pain in the ass to get those jerks to show up and hook my cable up though.
Did you have them run cable from the lines to your house and then inside your house? How much did that cost?
I double checked last night and it looks like our house has never had a co-axial hook up.
-jason
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:45 pm
Command-Line KiddJoined: 17 Feb 2009Posts: 260Location: The Internet
joeball wrote:
How did you swing that deal or where can I say I saw it?
I guess that's just what they were offering at the time. I still have my work order (dated 1/14) with the 24.95 price on it, plus a ~3 dollar modem rent.
joeball wrote:
Did you have them run cable from the lines to your house and then inside your house? How much did that cost?
My apartment building is already wired so I didn't have any of that to worry about, though if they operate anything like they did back on the east coast they will fuck your shit up running cable. If you care in anyway about the residence you inhabit, I'd be there to supervise when they're running cable. Either that or do it yourself, you may even be able to get them to give you the cable to do it, if not that you could dumpster dive for discarded lengths of cable.
henry
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:48 pm
somewhat piggishJoined: 05 Aug 2005Posts: 5415Location: on porch with shotgun
When comcast came to my house in ravenna they drilled into the wall ... and in to a sewer pipe ..
I can help you with the install, it isn't a lot of work in most older Seattle houses. If you have an unfinished basement and just want to run the cable to somewhere on the first floor then it is pretty easy.
alex
langston
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:45 am
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
FYI-
(March 6, 2009) – Starting tomorrow, Qwest will offer customers who switch from a competitor’s Internet service to Qwest High-Speed Internet a $100 incentive. Before you run out and tell all your friends who are still with cable or some dial-up service, check out the following requirements that must be met to qualify:
New subscribers to Qwest HSI
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On top of our current HSI offers – as low as $14.99/month for 1.5 Mbps service, $24.99/month for up to 7 Mbps, and $29.99 off the monthly price for three months of our fastest up to 12 Mbps and up to 20 Mbps services
In return for meeting all of the above requirements, customers will receive a $100 check within 8-10 weeks after ordering.
joeball
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:24 pm
Joined: 24 Jul 2005Posts: 6037Location: Ether
Supersize me.
I ended up with cable and internet since it was the same price.
I am dumping Clearwire, I am currently month to month and this can be transferred (ie no contract). Does any one want the reference number? Like some one who lives on a boat or is just renting for a short while? If so PM me.
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