Switch from Comcast broadband to AT& T DSL?

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Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn
Originally Posted By: Cutehumor
ToyotaNSaturn,

What kind of download speeds are you getting with AT &T DSL? which package do you got?


Where I live, 3Mbps is what's offered, and that was just last year. It was only $2.50/month more to go from 1.5 to 3Mbps.


on my wireless laptop, speedtest.net says I'm pulling 5000 kbps download speed with comcast broadband. cnet said 1400 kbps download though for some reason.
 
Cute - I have the 6 MB service. Just looked at some old tests on Broadband Reports and they ranged from 3-4.7. However, this varies by the quality of the wiring between you and the distribution point. Mine is 1979 vintage.

You are correct about AT&T hating Comcast. That is the same word I get from a friend in that business.
 
Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn
Choose the reset option on the right. Wait 2 minutes. Far simpler than calling anyone for support.


Or you can power cycle the modem and the router, even simpler. You should always try to power cycle the equipments first before calling tech support. That's the first thing they will ask you to try anyways.
 
Originally Posted By: Cutehumor
I watch alot of American tv shows online from China so I'll need enough bandwidth for myself and my wife.
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I never thought about DSL as I always heard cable was faster, but this deal they sent me piqued my interest. I didn't see anything about connection charges and I noticed they said "24 month fixed" rates. Has AT &T raised their rates lately? My comcast rates have stayed the same since I got cable internet four years ago.


If you get 6MB/s DSL it is comparable to Cable, but the problem with Cable is if you are in a college town, then you have 30 customers running bit torrents and it literally sucked 98% of the bandwidth out of the 6MB/s shared pipe. DSL limits the maximum bandwidth per customer had (usually people buy 1.5MB/s) and that keeps them under control. Most of the issue is the upstream speed as bit torrent allocate download priority based on the amount you upload to others. In cable the upstream bandwidth is low and you would really get hammered if someone bit torrents. This isn't as much of an issue with DSL.


For 90% of the people, running the same speed (6MB/s) paying the same price, they are pretty much the same.
 
Good point, Panda. With cable, you're at the mercy of the kids down the street, or in the same apartment complex who are downloading DVD videos & such.

My wife watches the TV shows she missed online w/o issues so the speed for her is a-ok.
 
Originally Posted By: PandaBear
DSL limits the maximum bandwidth per customer had (usually people buy 1.5MB/s) and that keeps them under control.


They can do the same with cablemodems, it's part of the DOCSIS spec.

You may have heard of people "uncapping" their cablemodems. They are trying to get around the imposed upstream limit--and are usually caught (and often face criminal charges of theft of service) pretty quickly because of the service degradation that can cause.
 
Comcast is way overpriced. I love my cheap 1.5 DSL. Does everything I need just fine except for huge downloads.
 
My brother works for AT&T and the thing that he really hates is the competitors that use the infrastructure that AT&T has, but AT&T is caught with the bill to maintain it.

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Please support my brothers employer (AT&T)
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I've worked with AT&T on a contract that I'm thankfully no longer on and what I really hate is the incompetence of their "engineers"...especially when they get in over their head and call us in the middle of the night for help.

Did I mention that AT&T is taking over this contract?

The best part is that they took away our access to some of the devices and their "engineers" don't know how to use them...so they call us so we can do support over the phone for them and teach them how to use them. Joy.

I'm half tempted to get them a "Cisco for Dummies" book.
 
Comcast has a 250 GB download limit. What's AT&T download limit?

I think AT&T infrastructure will be new in my part of town. So maybe my speeds will be faster? our old phone service was based out of Lavernge, TN as AT &T wasn't available to us 4 years ago.
 
I've been keeping track of my total bytes downloaded. In the last 34 days, I've downloaded 62GB. I don't think I'll be hitting a 250GB download limit anytime soon.
 
I've watched almost 70 episodes of Bones online in the past three weeks. how may GB is that? 50gb?
 
Originally Posted By: Cutehumor
I've watched almost 70 episodes of Bones online in the past three weeks. how may GB is that? 50gb?


Do you watch the streamed HD or the low resolution version?

I watch Lost and The Summer Glau Chronicles in HD online. I have no idea how much allotted bandwidth one episode gobbles up. I've never run put of bandwidth...
 
most likely low resolution online. I've burned several discs onto my pc to watch later. Usually, 4 episodes were 4.7 GB a piece.
 
"run put" = "run out"
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Okay, so you literally download those episodes as opposed to just watching them online.
 
Originally Posted By: Cutehumor
I've watched almost 70 episodes of Bones online in the past three weeks. how may GB is that? 50gb?


Run netstat -e from a command prompt before you start watching it and again after you finish and there's your answer. I doubt it's that much, a typical 45 minute divx video is about 350MB even if it's widescreen "high def".
 
Originally Posted By: moribundman
"run put" = "run out"
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Okay, so you literally download those episodes as opposed to just watching them online.


I didn't download the episodes. I watched it streaming.

But the ones I burned onto my computer for watching later came from a DVD that I got from the library.
 
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