Minty

Does anyone have any advice/experience on who to use for the broadband internet connection. I live in Southern California and have lookad at Adelphia. The AT&T also looks OK $29.99 for 1.5Mb.

Can anyone suggest a good provider at reasonable cost? Looking for at leat 1Mb but prefer 2Mb.

Minty

CaliforniaBride

We're in CA too. We use Time Warner Cable. We have a packege but their website should give you their prices and details.

Bob

We're stuck with Adelphia...and to be honest...there shite...they randomly cut the internet for maintanence, which is one thing, but they don't give any warning, and the speeds are no where near what they advertise...

Road Runner is pretty good if you get it, they do decent package deals especially with cable.

Haven't got experience with any of the other broadband services though, but I'm sure there's plenty of other decent services, especially out in CA.

Duncan Roberts

We have Cox right now and it's great. In 2 weeks we move to an Adelphia region and am not looking forward to it. However I just read that Time Warner have just bought Adelphia and are linking up somehow with Comcast so hopefully that will make it nice.

mandpete

We used Comcast for a while which we were quite happy with, however when Verizon DSL became available to us we switched because Comcast couldn't guarantee a static IP address but Verizon could. Personally I haven't a clue what that means but my husband works from home most of the time and said he needed a static IP address.

Bob

Most people don't need a static IP, no real advantage to it...though only really need it if your using your own puter as a web server, to host your own website off your puter, ftp off your puter etc.

Deal with time warner and adelphia could be good, but then there has been talk of that for ages, and talk of adelphia going under and staying under for ages as well, so until something happens, taking it with a pinch of salt.

Duncan Roberts

From what the artical said the deal is done. Not sure if this is just in Ohio or will be nationwide at some point.

http://www.cleveland.com/search/inde...9261.xml?bxbiz

Bob

Well that's cool...hope it rolls out quickly across the country because Adelphia suck right now and there's no alternate, well there is verizon dsl, which is more expensive and slower at the moment.

Eskimo

live in so cal and we have Verizon - excellent service $30 per month with MSN premium

shepslady

We have just switched to Verizon DSL also with premium msn & so far its great & a good deal at $30 a month. Touch wood the service continues to be as good as it has so far. Love the idea of being able to connect with both computers at the same time & still being able to use the phone without having to pay for an extra line.

vegas

Been with Verizon Fios for 2 months now 15mb down and 2mb up absolutely fabulous this is the future for $39 a month

syllk

15Mb download? Either a definite typo, or extremely lucky you!

Bob

and if it's luck...wtf do you do with that much bandwidth? I mean that's a whole lotta porn...

Ray

Seems right but its $49 a month ...
http://www22.verizon.com/fiosforhome...netForHome.asp

I can't get it... mine is Road Runners with 5 mb download at $45 a month..

Eskimo

just get Syllk to send you one his "humourous" emails