CL is pretty much "as good as it gets, depending on your distance from 
co" vs. more stable rate=bw @ cox, seeing as you don't live in a totally 
crappy end of the valley with 30yr old coax.  Cox has mostly replaced 
that sort of ancient feeders, so less of an issue these days with cable 
internet, dsl is always far more variable.  Can't control modulation 
quality over two or even 4-wire twisted pairs in consumer situations vs. 
shielded coax.  If you get bad coax speeds, harass cox until they fix 
it, they could in theory, vs. twisted pair sort of stuck distance-wise.

I don't exactly endorse cox, but they are generally the better technical 
solution until fiber is available with shielded coax+docsis.  I'm not 
willing to move to some new-build bfe suburb to get fiber, and coax can 
support well more than 1gbe speeds with full 32x channel bonding @~55mb 
per channel downstream for docsis3.x.

Wonder why they turned off analog channels?  Besides, who really uses 
1gbe speeds aside from a service provider or having 10 kids all using 
netflix at the same time watching at 4k res?

-mb


On 10/27/2015 12:44 PM, Tom Roche wrote:
> [Apologies if this is too off-topic: I'm a new user of this list.]
>
> For how cheap can one rent a reliable, Linux-compatible internet connection in the Valley? What I mean, why I ask:
>
> I was a longtime user of TWC/Roadrunner (data only--been TV-free for decades) for internet access at my previous home. ~2012 (IIRC) TWC raised their internet-only price to (IIRC) >60 $/mo. I raised both middle fingers and switched to FreedomPop's {$24, 10 GB}/mo Sprint-4G-based home service. FP
>
> * played well with my (now-aging, but all up-to-date Debian) laptops and WRT54GL router
>
> * was generally reliable (except during major thunderstorms). Particularly, it tolerated my then-employer's kludgey VPN (used for SSH-ing into compute/storage clusters).
>
> * was fast enough (though faster is always better :-)
>
> * gave just enough data (I don't game or stream much video) that I never went over-limit (which would have incurred fairly onerous charges).
>
> - had very bad customer service/support, which I was barely able to tolerate given the price delta with local competition.
>
> I recently relocated at roughly the same time as FP announced its home device (the FreedomPop Hub Burst) would EOS. This is not currently a problem--I'm sharing a roommate's ISP--but eventually I'll probably need to get my own connection. So I'd like to know what other folks (if anyone on this list is as cheap as I am :-) are doing for cheap internet access. Bridging off phones? Jumping from one yearly teaser rate to another? Something Completely Different?
>
> TIA (if not OT), Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
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