Comcast internet vs. AT&T U-verse

[fiddlingfrog]

I'm moving to San Ramon in July and I'm looking into my options for internet service. We don't really watch a lot of TV, but my wife does want to have a landline phone in our new place. Looking at their websites it looks like Comcast offers a better service for phone and internet, but I thought I'd ask around a bit first. Thanks.

Comments

[ex_juan_gan]

My personal experience. AT&T sucks; they are almost evil. Comcast is okay, never had a problem with them. And also, Just internet (up to 20mbps) is about $80/mo. Suits me; lots of movies are online anyway.

[johno]

Bit of religious war with those choices.

I had Comcast. Crappy TV feed, cable modem that had to reset nearly daily, despite paying for high bandwidth, I rarely saw it at that speed.

2+ years now with Uverse. Great TV feed, only 3 issues with the cable modem, I get at or near the paid for speed most of the time.

Your mileage may vary and I'm sure someone is going to come in with a completely reverse set of experiences.

[elusis]

I had great Comcast experience until I moved (less than a quarter of a mile away) to a building where I could barely get any stable service from them at all. It was all down to the wiring. AT&T has served me fine since then but both are participants in the "six strikes" BS, so I'm going to move to Sonic as soon as I have enough spare energy to deal with it.

[eeepeeep]

In the last 5 years I have lived in 3 different places. In pleasanton near the hospital, in windemere, in dublin near-ish to bart.

In pleasanton, AT&T and comcast are about the same.
In SR, AT&T blew comcast out of the water.
In Dublin, had to switch back to comcast as AT&T just couldn't deliver service that would reliably let me do something as simple as watch youtube or netflix.

It realllly depends on what part of each city you live in as far as internet speeds. That said, the AT&T equipment is, as you say, much more advanced and reliable. The AT&T cable box system really, really rules and the modem/router combo worked quite well.

[evilgoatbob]

I've used them both in the Bay Area. They're both pretty shitty customer service wise, but I've stuck with AT&T recently. Mostly because I don't watch cable TV, and for unified biling with my phone.

[balmofgilead]

If Sonic is available and the branch or whatever is close enough to your house to be decent (since DSL speeds decrease as the distance increases), it's a good option. We pay $60/month for internet and landline.

[fiddlingfrog]

It wasn't available at our location, but thanks for the tip. Based on the apartment manager's advice we ended up picking AT&T

[neoqbacca]

Sonic DSL (Sonic Fusion if it's available where you live...)

[fiddlingfrog]

Not available, but thanks for the tip.