Cancelling Bellsouth and activating Comcast

[Taggart]

I am going to get rid of the landline and DSL, and sign up for cable internet. When should I cancel Bellsouth and activate Comcast? I don't want to have a gap with no internet! I also don't want to pay for 2 internet providers at the same time. Thx.

 

[dartworth]

Just cancel Bellsouth when the cable is turned on...it's not that hard.

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: Taggart
I am going to get rid of the landline and DSL, and sign up for cable internet. When should I cancel Bellsouth and activate Comcast? I don't want to have a gap with no internet! I also don't want to pay for 2 internet providers at the same time. Thx.

Well, you're not going to be able to have both. What's more important? No downtime, or paying a little extra to make a smooth transition to another broadband company?

 

[thehstrybean]

Call Comcast and ask...

 

[Taggart]

ok

 

[imported_goku]

The first thing you should do is cancel comcast and activate SBC. I don't know if you know this but DSL is much better for gaming than cable (I've got cable and I advocate for DSL, friend has dsl and thinks cable is better).

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: goku
The first thing you should do is cancel comcast and activate SBC. I don't know if you know this but DSL is much better for gaming than cable (I've got cable and I advocate for DSL, friend has dsl and thinks cable is better).

Definitely not.

My next door neigbhor gets atleast 20ms more to the same servers that I am on.

He has DSL, I have cable.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: goku
The first thing you should do is cancel comcast and activate SBC. I don't know if you know this but DSL is much better for gaming than cable (I've got cable and I advocate for DSL, friend has dsl and thinks cable is better).

It's a tossup - it's an individual setup thing.

 

[jjessico]

I can't imagine trading cable for DSL. I just did the exact opposite. TimeWarner--cancel-->BellSouth.

Are you aware that cable has a tendancy to suck?

 

[r6ashih]

cable is better than dsl. call up comcast, they'll tell you when they can come in and set up your connection. when they come in, cancel your dsl.

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: goku
The first thing you should do is cancel comcast and activate SBC. I don't know if you know this but DSL is much better for gaming than cable (I've got cable and I advocate for DSL, friend has dsl and thinks cable is better).

No way. Comcast is WAY better than Bellsouth. I tried the free 60 days of Bellsouth DSL and my pings in CS were a good 30-50 more than my normal rates with comcast (same servers). Not to mention the fact that Comcast has like 10x the download speed now.

 

[nsafreak]

Normally I advocate DSL service but I'm going to agree with everybody else in this thread cable (Comcast in particular) is usually faster and has lower latency than DSL. I have personal experience with this myself. And I haven't come across a DSL service yet that will provide me with the 6 megabits downstream that Comcast does.

 

[Reckoner]

Comcast is evil, make sure you know what you're getting into 😉

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: nsafreak
Normally I advocate DSL service but I'm going to agree with everybody else in this thread cable (Comcast in particular) is usually faster and has lower latency than DSL. I have personal experience with this myself. And I haven't come across a DSL service yet that will provide me with the 6 megabits downstream that Comcast does.

yea, 6Mb down and low pings are two different things. Also DSL is generally more reliable than cable (DSL is dictated by the quality of the lines and while cable is too, service for cable will cut out for really no reason). I'll admit that 5Mb down for my cable is awesome but the pings aren't better than my dsl or my friends dsl, we had comcast cable (I'm on astound now) and the pings weren't very good at all which is why I make this statement. My pings are better with astound but the service is sadly unreliable.