Between spring break last week and having 5 teeth extracted this week I have not made any posts in too long.
What can I share with readers this morning?
Switched from DSL to cable this week. I have been debating the pros and cons for several months. I have been a SBC/Yahoo customer for years and they have always provided me with good service. When I moved to Milwaukee I wasn't able to get the high speed package I had been using. Having had a bad experience with Charter cable I was unwilling to go down that road again so I decided to stick with DSL at a lower speed. I game online and download movies and music. The reduced bandwidth was very noticeable. My main aversion to using cable internet was having to pay for cable tv I don't watch. This was the catch that I ran into with Charter. I just wanted internet service and no tv cable, they only offered it as a package. Paying $35 a month for commercials is ridiculas so I went with SBC. The catch with DSL is paying for phone service as well. While I was living in Fond du Lac this was fine, I used my phone. After moving to Milwaukee the only calls I received on the phone were wrong numbers. Everyone calls me on my cell and I use it for all of my calling. Paying $20 a month to answer wrong numbers also seemed ridiculas so I started looking for alternatives. In looking at Time-Warner's website I found that I could subscribe to Road Runner without having to pay for cable, Hooray! So now for $5 less a month than what I was paying for DSL and an unused phone I have 3.33x the bandwidth. Life is good :)
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I wish you the best of luck! As far as I know, living on campus, we have to use Time Warner. Or at least that is the assumption we are under and no one seems to care enough to research beyond that. The past 3 1/2 years that I have been on campus, I have been chief moderator of the Internet at my apartment for the majority of them. We use Time Warner for our Internet and Cable TV and the cable is fine, but the Internet is a different story.
This year has been especially trying of my faith in Time Warner. I can't tell you the amount of problems we had with the set-up and use of the Internet throughout the year. For now, it seems to be ok and I don't dare curse that. I will admit that some of this is probably due to the lack of knowledge and patience that my roommates and I have with dealing with Internet problems. Oh and beware of the phone calls and staying on hold for 20 minutes--ugh
I look forward to hearing your praises about Time Warner so as to restore my faith a bit.
Road Runner has been pretty stable for me once I got a a repair guy to give me this beefy old school modem.
Then again half of my back yard is now taken up by ATT boxes for the city wide wireless network so maybe I will jack into that when it gets up and running. I figure if I am actually using it I might be less tempted to take an axe to the ugly beige behemoths stopping me from seeing grass in half my yard.
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