SOCIAL: Anyone using Comcast Digital Cable or ATT U-Verse in SF?

[Joel Young]

I agree that Comcast are awful and impersonal and litigious. However, I'm addicted to the fat pipe, and they deliver. I rarely had problems with them over 3 years of service in SF -- I think there were a couple short outages. I use bittorrent all the time, with throttled upload speed, and I haven't received a threatening letter or noticed degradation in my service (yet).

Joel

On May 4, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Lisa Manter wrote:

> Hi Deep (and Social),
>  Quality aside, folks should know that Comcast as a cable provider
> has the legal right to monitor what you are downloading.  If you use
> bitorrent, they are allowed to reduce your bandwidth and may also send
> you a threatening letter telling you to stop.  If you use DSL, you
> still have the legal protections that any phone line has (i.e. they
> can't monitor your phone use without getting a warrant).  This is a
> big legal issue at the moment and something that the FCC is
> considering further.
>  Best,
> Lisa
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Amandeep Jawa <deep at deeptrouble.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hey folks -
>> 
>> For years, I've been using the hyper-reliable but crazy-expensive-for-what-little-I-get Speakeasy DSL service for my broadband.  But it is 2010, and I think I should be able to do better than a measly 8Mbps down.  It looks like the best fat-pipe-for-reasonable options are Comcast Cable & ATT U-Verse.  DSLReports.com has a variety of positive and negative reviews of Comcast, and some really bad reviews of U-Verse.... But I'd rather ask you, my peeps.... In particular, anyone using these in SF? How's it doin' fer ya?
>> 
>> Anyone, anyone?
>> 
>> -'deep
>> 
>> .ps Yes Internet gods! I'm shaking my fists at thee in arrogance and insubordination! Yes, I dare thee to smite me for my hubris!!!! (might as well call a spade a spade...)
>> 
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