Maximum PC

I'm moving to the portland area soon, and will have to pay for my own internet (as in not included in rent)

with comcast and AT&T capping bandwidth, filtering torrent traffic and all sorts of other shenanigans, is there and ISP's "for the people" who at least appear to be looking out for the little guys even if it's just to get their business?

From what I've heard comcast caps are pretty roomy, so if that's what I go with it'll be ok, but I'd just like to know my options.

I'm nowhere near Portland (or the west coast for that matter), but Comcast has been good to me for 3 years running. I'm not a real heavy downloader, but when I do download something, it's in clusters. 20Gb of stuff in 2 weeks, then nothing for 6 or 7. Can't really say much about the other major ISPs around the area.

Verizon DSL has specifically mentioned repeatedly that their downloads are not and will not be capped, and that if/when their network starts slowing down due to use, they expand it instead. They have pretty good deals (right now I'm paying $20 a month for life for 3Mb down/768kb up). The only thing they might hammer you about is running a Tor exit node.

i use Charter Communication
When the caps started flying around I caled them and told them in no uncertin terms if they cap my internet they loose a customer, they assured me they have no plans to cap and i made them record my comment.

While the service is great i will say this

Customer Service sucks, calling them is such a pain

They lied to you.

http://www.charter.com/Visitors/Policies.aspx?Policy=6


Scroll down to Section 13.

Also see:
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/16900.cfm
http://www.multichannel.com/article/173 ... _Plans.php

Nice thread res, dood. 3 months?

$hit! Sucked in again! GD it!

That's what I had--then it started going up-and-down for the past three weeks. Yesterday my max download speed was 6.2 kb/sec. ???

You call them and get a spiel from somebody in India. Regardless of how much you know or what you've done to correct--they follow their stupid script. Then when they can't correct the problem--you're put on hold for 20-45 minutes while they contact their technical-repair contractor; and they then tell you it'll be 12 days for a tech. That's happened to me 3 times in the past 3 weeks. Bye-bye, Verizon. And I'm not paying "early-termination," either.


Let'em sue me. I'll bring my Actiontec screen-shots into court.

I'm willing to bet that you're a 'victim' of bandwidth shaping on your ISPs part ... are you using torrents?

Odd. How far are you from the CO? Seen any service trucks around your neighborhood lately? Had any rain- or windstorms lately that might affect wiring on poles? Any new software installs? Viruses? Malware? I've thoroughly enjoyed using VZ DSL for almost three years without one single service call needed.

Speeds for me have been consistently topnotch. I've had exactly two outages: one was six hours when they had CO troubles, and one was 15 minutes when they switched me from 768/128 to 3.0/768. That was a free upgrade, BTW.

Even when I run LimeWire (rarely, to be honest) my service is fast fast fast.