Depending on where you live, you might have other options. For example, fixed wireless like Stephouse or similar. Fixed wireless is limited to where you have line-of-sight from your roof to one of their points of presence. Some apartment buildings might have FiberSphere or some alternative fiber carrier, but that's pretty spotty.
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 4:44 PM, Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > My main advice is, as companies, they are all horrible. The service itself > is usually okay, the prices and policies are all "take-it-or-leave-it" > (Comcast might be more likely to cut temporary special deals, but you > usually have to have long telephone conversations every 6 months or so to > keep them in place). CenturyLink has some innovative (i.e. fraudulent) > billing practices that they are currently being sued over. So, shop around. > Play one off against the other to the extent you can. DSL is a dead-end > product, so I'd avoid it. Maybe some day we'll have a municipal fiber > system, but not for a few years under the best case scenario. I have the > CenturyLink gigabit service. They are fraudulently charging me $5/month > more than they said they would. No transfer cap, I paid extra for a static > IP ($75 setup + $10/month). Total on the last bill was $95, but should be > $90. I rarely see more than ~30Mbps from any real service, but > speedtest.net says I'm getting close-ish to a gigabit. Usually upstream > speeds register higher than downstream. If you are going to upload big > files, fiber has a practical advantage over cable, which tends to have > pretty low upstream speeds (which they don't talk very much about because > "you are a consumer, dammit"). CenturyLink has lower speed tiers for less > money, but I believe there are monthly caps. > > Good luck! > > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 3:32 PM, mitch Stanley <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Hi, We are moving back to SW Portland , & we only had the choice of >> Comcast >> Or Century Link for Broadband, I believe I'm still restricted to them but >> if you have a link ,advice ect please email >> >> me directly Or post on PLUG. >> >> Thank you in Advance , Mitch Stanley >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
