Reccomendations for a new broadband?

[TheDebater]

I've gotta get rid of my $60 a month Bellsouth DSL, too expensive. I was thinking about switching to Cox@home or maybe some other DSL supplier (maybe direct TV?). Anyone got any reccomendations? services i should stay away from? cost estimates? thanks

 

[RambleOn]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=641777

 

[Helpless]

You debate in college?

 

[TheDebater]

highschool, went to nats, NFL and CFL, doubt I'll debate in college.

EDIT: so the feeling is i should stay away from @home?

 

[NakaNaka]

yes stay as far away from @home as possible until they get their shiz settled out.

 

[gopunk]

depending on where you are though. if you're in seattle, then cable is the way to go

 

[TheDebater]

I'm in Pensacola, FL which is Northwest Florida. Anybody know anything about DirectTV DSL? come on folks, lets hear some reccomendations

 

[pulse8]

<< highschool, went to nats, NFL and CFL, doubt I'll debate in college. >>



Are you a master debater?


huhuhuhuhuhuh...

 

[gopunk]

that, and i'm a cunning linguist.

 

[TheDebater]

Master Debaters: We do it orally

Now how bout some reccomendations

 

[Paulson]

Don't get satellite internet... You'll hate it...

I have a hard enough time going into radioshack and not laughing at the msn internet on display...

-me "so does it always go this slow"
-them "slow? How is this slow?"
-me "I only have 256kb internet connection and it's a lot faster than this"
-them " sir, I believe you're mistaken, this is up to 5 times faster than dial up"

lol, aside from the sh!tty pings, the speed sucks on satellite internet.

 

[TheDebater]

DirectTV DSL advertises up to 50x faster than dialup, i dont think anything is satelite related other than the name. They bought Telocity dsl or something so thats how the provide it.

 

[yakko]

They prefer the name female group not broadband.

 

[LostHiWay]

I have DirecPC since I can't get cable or DSL. Yea, the ping times do suck But, browsing is much faster than dial-up and I can usually download at about 90-100k which beats the crap out of dialup