?: Cox vs QWEST

[Technomage]

On Monday 13 February 2006 16:12, Mark Jarvis wrote:
> I currently have TV & internet via Cox and phone via QWEST.  Current
> situation:
>
> 1) There are cost advantages to getting all services from the same
> supplier.
>
> 2) I regularly see download speeds of 350+ to 700* KBytes/sec. (usually
> depending on the host site's speed) on Cox.
>
> 3) QWEST promises download speed of 1+ MByte/sec. (This doesn't sound
> correct to me--I thought that DSL was slower, but . . .)
>
> 4) While 500+ is NICE when grabbing a new ISO, it's not absolutely
> essential.
>
> 5) I currently have two boxen connected to a Linksys router which
> connects to a (non-cox provided) Toshiba DOCSIS cable "modem".
>
> 6) Location is N. Central Phx. (South of Northern).
>
> Any pertinent comments, suggestions, personal experiences, etc. would be
> appreciated.
>
> -mj-
>
MJ
IMHO, avoid QWEST like the black plague.
I used to have DSL with them, but they never had my billing correct (3 years 
worth of over charges) and I never had good service with them after moving 
out to west phoenix (service outages so often that I had to terminate 
service, at which point a complaint <and counter complaint> were filed).

I went to cox in december of 1999 and never looked back.