i have Time Warner Roadrunner.  i started out with digital cable TV 
and Roadrunner, but the constant price increases drove me through the 
roof.  Our home owner association pays for basic cable, so I dropped 
the digital, but the price of Roadrunner increased because it was no 
longer part of a package.  I must say though that the service has 
been extremely reliable, and I haven't needed to partake of their 
customer service.  not long ago, Roadrunner took over Comcast's 
interests in So Cal, so unless you want DSL, Roadrunner is the only 
game in town, and the former Comcast subscribers who had to migrate 
to Roadrunner are screaming, as apparently, Roadrunner, at least 
initially, seemed to lack the intrestructure to absorb large numbers 
of new subscribers.  Also, one thing about download speeds.  no 
matter what rate your ISP is capable of, your actual speed will 
depend as much on the site you are downloading from as anything 
else.  There are some sites where downloads are as slow as 20 KBS 
even with a 5 MB broadband connection.

Andy
At 03:27 PM 6/26/2007, you wrote:
>my friend also has comcast and her internet is  down about 85 percent of the
>time and thats hard to have reliable chats that way in my opinion
>
>http://www.mypowermall.com/biz/home/3833
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 5:25 PM
>Subject: Re: Down To DSL
>
>
> > Comcast lies to people when there's problems and everything, if they
> > weren't
> > the only game in town I'd switch, but they screwed us real bad on the
> > package deal so I only have them for  internet now, dish network for TV,
> > and
> > the main phone in the house has verizon, my private line is with
> > voicewing,
> > either way, it's cheaper now than with the package when they got done with
> > us..
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 5:43 PM
> > Subject: Down To DSL
> >
> >
> >>I am always curious about other people's experiences so here is
> >> mine for what it is worth.
> >>
> >>     I started out with high speed internet service probably about
> >> 7 or 8 years ago.  Maybe even further back than that.  I tried
> >> starting with DSL but my phone company didn't have that service in
> >> my area so I called, what used to be home.com at that time,
> >> because they handled cable service for the Denver area at that
> >> time.  It was about 55 to 60 dollars a month.  home.com later was
> >> bought out, after a big court battle, by ATT but eventually, and
> >> only after a couple of years, they were bought out by the local TV
> >> cable company which is comcast.  I always enjoyed my cable days
> >> and rarely had a problem.  The customer repair service wasn't
> >> anything to write home about, though, but nothing went wrong,
> >> normally, so it generally wasn't a problem.  Then about a year
> >> ago, or more, comcast put on a big push and you could get cable,
> >> TV, and digital phone for a dad gum reasonable price.  Well, stuff
> >> like that never lasts for ever and eventually they jacked all the
> >> prices up and before too long, the 75 dollars a month we were
> >> saving, was turned into a negative.  I didn't want to go to DSL,
> >> since it was slower, even though they had it in our area now, but
> >> there were some little things about digital phone that bothered me
> >> once and awhile but everything else was fine.  We even went from 4
> >> megs to 8 meg service but I swore, my hand on the Bible, my
> >> internet connection slowed down both for email and the web when we
> >> went to 8 megs.  It could have been updates they were doing and
> >> things they were working on but it definitely was slower access.
> >> Anyhow, we saved a few bucks going back to Qwest and got Direct TV
> >> with the package, or bundle, from Qwest, DSL, and of course the
> >> standard wire land line phone service.  The phone service, no
> >> matter what digital comcast phone says, is better and especially
> >> overseas and I do some overseas stuff.  The digital phone comcast
> >> service has a lot of nice features but there are a couple of
> >> things they don't have, convenience items I missed with landline
> >> service, The TV stuff is, of course, the same, but the DSL is
> >> nothing short of amazing.  Well, compared to all I did on cable.
> >> Now I realize downloading huge files is going to be different over
> >> all but I rarely do that anyhow.  The email and web access,
> >> however, is just the same.  In fact, I honestly believe my email
> >> connections are faster.  So I am assuming that comcast has a lot
> >> more people on the cable line in this neighborhood than years ago
> >> when I was probably the only one in miles around me on cable
> >> internet years ago.  Anyhow, I have not run any tests of download
> >> speeds, either before or after.  Streaming seems the same,
> >> however.  I don't need to run some speed tests, although I am
> >> curious up to a point, but the basic, every day activities, are
> >> the same.  I felt a little sheepish going to Qwest, which is now
> >> owned by MSN, you know, anti big business and all, but becoming
> >> q.com changed my mind.  The shorter the better, at least I think
> >> that's how it goes, or is it the longer the better?  I don't know.
> >> I forget now at my age.  So, I thought I might report, for what it
> >> is worth, on my experience to date.  I even checked into a
> >> wireless company but they wanted 50 dollars a month for just two
> >> computers.  Oh, by the way, the customer service from Qwest makes
> >> comcast look ridiculous.  In fact, that's why we finally changed.
> >> A couple of weeks ago, comcast jacked our services up so badly,
> >> nobody knew what was going on, and they hosed up our phone
> >> service, calling services, and internet connections and everybody
> >> you talked to would tell us something different.  Qwest comes out
> >> in 8 hours minimum.  Then again, I miss the old dial up days.
> >> Scratch that.  I don't miss the dial up days, so I take that back.
> >>
> >> Phil.
> >> The Q\
> >>
> >> K0NX
> >> The Zenith Tube
> >> www.RedWhiteAndBlue.org
> >>
> >>