Hi , Thank you for replying so quickly. We live in Redlands & we pay for Fiberoptic Interne <http://www.lomalinda-ca.gov/services/l_l_c_c_p/>t @ 15MB for $30 / month. I was hoping Portland had caught up to Ashland ,OR & had deployed Fiber too.
Thanks Again, Mitch Stanley 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
