Bay Area home internet

Wed Aug 16 19:09:38 PDT 2006

Hi

I live in Oakland, work in Berkeley.
I had SBC/Yahoo DSL now Comcast Cable and DSLExtreme. I actually
monitor all my connections.
SBC Yahoo DSL is the slowest for me, uptime is OK. Happy to stop
service.
Comcast Cable is the fastest at home, uptime is medium to OK. (down
like 2 or 3 times a month, 0.5-4 hours at a time)
The best service overall is DSL Extreme, which has almost 0 down time.
The DSL Extreme 6MBs down 384 Up is a tad faster than Comcast cable on
downloads, and quite a bit faster on uploads.

Kobus
http://www.bixdata.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-baylisa at baylisa.org [mailto:owner-baylisa at baylisa.org] On
Behalf Of John "Rowan" Littell
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 21:25
To: baylisa at baylisa.org
Subject: Bay Area home internet

So, I'm moving to the Bay Area -- Oakland, to be specific (actually,
I'm already here, but still getting settled -- hi all).  And I'm  
trying to figure out what options I have for internet service.   
Naturally, don't figure myself for a complete dunce at managing simple
network equipment (although Comcast would certainly love to sock me
for it if they can).  I don't have a particular preference for cable
or DSL, as long as it's reasonably fast (384k is probably sufficient,
more is great), relatively stable, and won't treat me like a complete
moron (either at installation time or when I call to tell them that
their router is spewing bogons).  I will have traditional land line
phone service and cable TV (unless someone really wants to talk me
into Dish Networks).  I'll be connecting, directly, either an old 486
running ipfw/ipnat or a Linksys workalike (and behind that a couple of
Mac laptops); providers who insist on
Win* installations will be chucked in the bit bucket where they
belong.

What to people suggest/love/hate?

Thanks,
   --rowan