Cable internet access

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

My housemate and I are thinking about upgrading to cable modem. (Yes we're still using dial-up modems...sooo slow!) Any recommendations? Any ISPs to avoid? He's looking at web sites right now, and we were gagging over how expensive AT&T Broadband is.

We live in Somerville.

Comments

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

In our experience, they've all been lame, but Verizon has been spectacularly lame, to the extent that I had to swear to badmouth them for all eternity, so there ya go.

I've heard good things about SpeakEasy, but never gotten to try it.

In practice, the service you end up with may be limited by exactly where you live; DSL coverage areas are extremely random (based on your distance from telephone central offices, the wire conditions over that distance, and how the phone company is feeling that day), but often the only way you can find out if you're in a service area is by attempting to order the service. (Of course, that doesn't apply to cable modems; not being TV owners, we've generally preferred DSL when we can get it.)