AT&T is very poorly rated in some<div>ways, including cell phones. More</div><div>generally, the gap between advertised</div><div>performance and actual is much </div><div>higher with DSL. I've tested Comcast's</div>
<div>cable speeds, and they are most often</div><div>as advertised. When DSL says "up to,"</div><div>it's often not even that on a test server.</div><div><br></div><div>AT&T's U-verse has a 24 Mbps option,</div>
<div>but I rather doubt that's real.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm no Comcast fan, and it has pretty</div><div>much stated that it will not offer higher</div><div>speeds now unless it has to. Sadly,</div><div>there really is nothing else around for</div>
<div>the highest speeds.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Dan Pilcheck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pilcheck@gmail.com">pilcheck@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hey folks,<br>
<br>
I'm finally fed up with comcast enough to look around for alternate<br>
ISPs, but it looks to be a sparse market for wired broadband.<br>
(And not because of the latest DNS outage, their resolvers are way to<br>
slow, anyways, imo.)<br>
<br>
I'm looking at /will be testing Clears (<a href="http://clear.com" target="_blank">clear.com</a>) 4G home service,<br>
but I'm not expecting that to be up to par.<br>
Ma Bell's U-verse is about the only thing I can see that can compare,<br>
but if the price is reasonable to the speed<br>
I'd prefer to give my money to some local/smaller provider.<br>
<br>
Does the Grand Rapids metro area have any other options!?!?<br>
<br>
<br>
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