Tuna,

I did not appreciate my similar experiment with DirectTV, and Qwest:

1) It's going to be largely AREA dependent for DirectTV Experience - you need to mount the dish on the house in a southern facing way - some areas have terminally horrible signal.
2) Qwest's DNS is not as robust or fast as cox - unfortunately.  My throughput was not as fast AT ALL.
3) Using a single "packaged bundle" I had billing problems.
4) Their support was not 24x7.
5) The available stations were not as good as cable TV - especially for HD.

All in all, I was VERY happy to be back to cox, believe it or not.  And I come from Oregon where comcast has fiber in the street 14G down and 4up.


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> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:08:29 -0700
> From: tuna@supertunaman.com
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: ISP Infedelity / Touchy-Feelly Photons
> 
> Hello there!
> 
> First thing in the subject line comes first. My parents are looking to 
> dump the Coxload of manure that is our ISP, phone, and cable provider. 
> We are replacing the phone service with Qwest (I almost spelled it 
> correctly just now :/), the cable with DirectTV, and the internet 
> provider with... lolwut?
> 
> They're not sure on the internet service, but I'll be the only one using 
> it, so they are leaving the decision up to me. However, I don't know 
> which ISP is the least evil and corrupt around here, so I ask you: what 
> internet service provider would YOU recommend?
> 
> The reason my parents won't be using it is because of some demonic force 
> that causes our wireless network to be completely unreliable without 
> love or compassion. I don't know why, but we just can't get a signal 
> downstairs. We even bought a wireless signal bouncer and put it up in 
> what would seem like the perfect spot for it to be (on a ledge 
> overlooking the downstairs, where it may spread the joyous cheer that is 
> the Internet to all who are below), but we absolutely can not connect to 
> the network from downstairs. I have found that if I walk up to right 
> next to the wireless bouncer and have my laptop try connecting again, 
> and then once it's connected, walk back down to where it wouldn't work 
> before, I am able to maintain that signal for a while.
> 
> The parents then found out that they can use their Blackberries as 
> wireless modems, so they started doing that thing. It has been very 
> reliable for them.
> 
> The only reason for switching would be cost, but we don't want to pay 
> less for something if it's just going to be unreliable and nasty. I'm 
> looking for something that won't throttle my torrents or anything like that.
> 
> In the other half of the subject, I am currently looking for a 
> projector. As I have told some of you, I am going to build my very own 
> Microsoft-Surface-like-but-not-cuz-it-runs-Linux multitouch table. I 
> need the projector because a regular monitor wouldn't really work. See: 
> http://nuigroup.com/wiki/Hardware_List/
> 
> My budget is... very low, and I expect to start on this project... not 
> soon. :P But if you have a projector that you would like to sell me, 
> plzing to respond to this off-list and I would be happy to discuss 
> prices. If you want to give it to me for free, then you can be my new 
> best friend.
> 
> That was a long one...
> 
> Thanks!
> -tuna
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