internet access

[aventurine]

i've had it with dial-up. it's free, and it used to be somewhat reliable, but it's gone steadily downhill. i get booted every 10 minutes and the other day it actually had the nerve to connect at 9.6. so, anyone have any high-speed providers they can recommend?

tomorrow's the first day of school. bah.

Comments

[bradochophobia]

i dont know anything about dsl. with cable, you either purchase a modem or rent it for $3/mo. you generally pay $50/mo for service... most cable companies give some type of discount if you can fit it into a package. there is no installation fee, unless you have to install a new cable outlet. then there is like a $20 house call fee. cable is more reliable than dsl. although dsl is high on reliablility.

[aventurine]

i don't have cable tv, i have satellite tv. is there anything i can do with that?

[jjjiii]

There is satellite internet, but it's very expensive. Also, it's only fast going down -- the upstream link is still the sad old POTS dialup.

[aventurine]

that's not such a big deal to me... i could deal with it. i saw some deal on tv after i wrote this about $55/month for the satellite service and the connection. how expensive is it usually?

[jjjiii]

Not sure; I'd always heard between $100-200/mo for satellite internet.

[dilatedeyes]

i saw something like that advertised during the olympics last night. $57/mo for satellite tv + dsl from sbc.. but you'd still have to deal with the phone lines.

[aventurine]

yeah! that's exactly what i saw. did you happen to catch who the satellite provider would be?