ATT to impose DSL/Uverse cap

[WoodDraw]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/13/a...-overage-fees/

150 gigs for landline DSL, 250 for U-Verse. $10 for each additional 50.


Thoughts?

[007]

Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

I'd say go ahead and switch, but don't be surprised if speeds suck compared to Cox.

I'd make sure there is a trial period or something like that.

I have had them before. Surprisingly their 3mb speed is just as fast as the Cox 3mb speed. Imagine that.

[Saulbadguy]

Originally Posted by Guru

I have had them before. Surprisingly their 3mb speed is just as fast as the Cox 3mb speed. Imagine that.

Why did you switch to Cox?

[007]

Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

Why did you switch to Cox?

The promo they had at the time. It runs out in a couple months anyway. Plus, I had never tried a cable based ISP before so I wanted to see if there would be any difference. There wasn't.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Guru

The promo they had at the time. It runs out in a couple months anyway. Plus, I had never tried a cable based ISP before so I wanted to see if there would be any difference. There wasn't.

Yeah, if you live close enough to a node, the DSL is just fine. In my experience, out of Comcast, Time Warner, Sunflower, Surewest and U-Verse, Comcast has been the best as far as PQ, VOD content, ping and bandwidth go. Time Warner has by far the nicest features so it's second. I hated everything about U-Verse except their blazing fast DVR UI.

Oh and Sunflower was a complete abortion of an ISP. They had a monopoly on cable in Lawrence so they were instituting 18GB bandwidth caps back in 2006 on their most expensive Tier. I don't know what it's like now, I'm sure the cap is higher now, but it I think it used to be 6GB/12GB/18GB back in the day.