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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