I’m going cancel my DSL line, and with that my home phone line. The only reason I kept the landline phone was because of my DSL, and now I certainly don’t need that. I actually hate my landline phone from SBC. It costs a lot of money, and it doesn’t have free nights and weekends, and the charge me for “long-distance� calls which can be just the next town away. To avoid getting ripped off on toll calls, I subscribed to Sprint long-distance at an additional cost and they bill me an annoying service fee that just went up even if I don’t make any long distance calls in a month. Most of the calls or receive on my home phone are from solicitors anyway so it is pretty much a SPAM phone. I’m going cable modem and cell phone only, and I don’t see why I would ever want to go back.
Today I upgraded to Comcast high-speed Internet. Wow, I guess I was a little slow to catch on to this service. The performance is so totally superior; I don’t even recognize the Internet at my house anymore. I am getting download speeds more than 10 times faster than DSL. I’m able to watch videos more easily, and downloading a 50 MB file is snappy. I’m online a lot, so I figure I just gained half an hour to an hour of productivity or more by making the switch. Oh and it costs less than my DSL service too. No contract.
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Posted over 4 years ago
Actually the problem is not DSL per se. It is the fact that the phone companies in the US require you to have a land line before you get DSL that is the real issue. Here in Finland, we have DSL at about 5MB/sec both upstream and downstream and you are not required to have a land line. So now you can get VOIP for long distance calls to wherever you want and then a mobile phone for local calls. Add that the fact that there are no roaming fees in Finland and you are in phat city dude