I have AT&T Broadband and I am extremely satisfied.

Since signing up in August of 2000 ... there has never been an outage that lasted more than a couple hours.

The speed is, for the most part, great. It reached upwards of 700 kbps.

I own a 3Com cable modem (the company stopped selling them) ... and it is excellent. I also use Norton Internet Security which has a software firewall and an antivirus program. It is $60, but I am very satisfied with how well it works.

Dial-up is horrible ... I could never use it!

Hope this helps.


- Rob -

Dimension 8100
Pentium 4, 1.7 GHz
2048 MB PC800 RDRAM
64 MB GeForce3
20 & 30 GB Ultra ATA/100 HDs (7200 rpm)
60 GB external IEEE 1394 HD (7200 rpm)
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card
Altec Lansing ADA885 THX speakers
Samsung 16X DVD-ROM
NEC 16x/8x/40x CD-RW
Dell P991 monitor
Windows XP Professional

Latitude LS
Pentium 3, 500 MHz
256 MB SDRAM
Windows 2000 Professional (SP2)

- Rob -

Dimension 8100
Pentium 4, 1.7 GHz
2048 MB PC800 RDRAM
64 MB GeForce3
20 & 30 GB Ultra ATA/100 HDs (7200 rpm)
60 GB external IEEE 1394 HD (7200 rpm)
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card
Altec Lansing ADA885 THX speakers
Samsung 16X DVD-ROM
NEC 16x/8x/40x CD-RW
Dell P991 monitor
Windows XP Professional

Latitude LS
Pentium 3, 500 MHz
256 MB SDRAM
Windows 2000 Professional (SP2)

I use RoadRunner. I am very satisfied with it. If I have to go back to a dial up connection I would definitely start crying. :)

Jerry

I am one of the victims of the Excite@home debacle. Under Excite, I only had one outage for a few hours since Feb 2001. Download speeds were always between 1-1.5Mbytes, which I was happy with. Yesterday, the service was shut down, but this morning I got the call from Attbi they were ready for me. I opened the browser and all was running just as before. Looking in Winipcfg, everything had been configured automatically. Checking download speeds on DSL Reports showed the connection was just as good as Excite. I would have to say that I am very satisfied with the cable service I have had so far and would never go back to dial-up. Hope it will stay the same in the future.

I forgot to add that I have been using the free Zone Alarm firewall software and consider it to be excellent!

Craig




Message Edited on 12/02/01 03:31PM by Craig_Martinsen

I have had roadrunner for 3 years and would not go to dial-up even if they paid ME to use it. The speed and reliabilty is just to good to pass up.

Get yourself ZONEALARM from ZONELABS.COM though as you ABSOLUTELY need a firewall. They have a free version that is suitable. It is easy to install, easy to use and 100 percent affective. I have the purchased version (after a trial period ) and trust me, when you see how many times a day someone from China or Korea or Turkey or in the US tries to tap your computer , you'll be downright ticked off....

i have optimum online in north jersey and have not seen any lost of service since i got it ( about 4 months now). speeds generally are around 1.2 mps ( as per mcafee web site).

Road Runner here. Extremely pleased. Had it since February with speeds approaching 60-80 times faster than 52k modem (from DSLReports.com). I can't imagine ever going back to dialup and DSL is out (distance).

Ive had Comcast@Home for 2 years now and not been down once to my knowledge. Despite the recent fiasco with @Home, I expected to lost it, but Comcast came through for their customers in the end, unlike AT&T and others. I have no regrets. Dial up, NO WAY!!!

OcalaGuy44 wrote:
- Just wanted to ask you cable modem users if you are
- happy with your service. Do you experience alot of
- down time with it and have you had any problems with
- hackers invading your systems? Can you recommend a
- good firewall program to use with a cable modem?
- I've about had all the fun I can stand with dial-up
- connections and am seriously thinking about
- converting over.
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-

Hi,

I have had Cox@home (soon to be minus @home) for two years now. I was down once during that time for about half an hour. I get the max download speeds (400kBs) about 85% of the time. The other 15% of the time goes no lower than 300kBs. I am limited to upload speeds of 64kBs which is fine for most uses. At $39.00 per month w/modem rental it's a good deal.

As for a firewall, I use ZoneAlarm free. It works well. I did add a router just to be safe and now never have to see all the probes looking for open systems.

GET CABLE !! You won't be sorry.


Mis Dos Centavos,
Darrell

Choose from the complete list of FREE internet providers.

Would NEVER even consider returning to dial-up, even if it was free. Have had cable for a year now, remember though that you should have a decent computer to match. Am pondering a change to DSL however as the speed does tend to fluctuate locally as I think there are too many cable-users in this area now.



Dimension 4100, P III, 866 MHz
128MB SDRAM 133 MHz, 20.4GB 7200 rpm ultra ATA HD
Windows ME, using IE 6
48x Max Var CD-Rom
AltecLansing ACS-340 Speakers
17" Sony Trinitron
NAV (factory)
Internet connection: cable
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I have @home also. It was switched over seamlessly, everything is perfect. Spees is awesome, I can download a 5MB mp3 in 10 seconds. Correct me if my math is wrong, but I believe that makes it 4Mbps, as opposed to T1 line being 1.5. Never an outage, and it's never slowed down in fact it has gotten faster. I live in a business district, so I will probably never have to worry about overselling of the area. If cable is in yoru area, jump on it. Kind of expensive, but worth it.
OcalaGuy44 wrote:
- Just wanted to ask you cable modem users if you are
- happy with your service. Do you experience alot of
- down time with it and have you had any problems with
- hackers invading your systems? Can you recommend a
- good firewall program to use with a cable modem?
- I've about had all the fun I can stand with dial-up
- connections and am seriously thinking about
- converting over.
-
- Thanks in advance for your input ....
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