One more day for $20 DSL with SBC

[ViRaL1]

Tomorrow is the last day to sign up for SBC's $20 DSL promo.

More info at http://www.sbc.com/1995

At these prices there's really no excuse for dialup. :P

My only affiliation with SBC is that I have my phone and DSL service through them. I get nothing out of this other than getting all you slowpokes up to speed.

[pyrate83]

Nothing like a Dismally Slow Line for your internet. :P

Cable all the way baby!

[bazooka]

I had cable b4 and prefer dsl for many reasons.

It is cheaper. It is cheaper. It is cheaper. Did I mention it is cheaper? It is also not shared.

[sacajaweeda]

I recently switched from cable to DSL and the (main) differences for me have been just price and download speed. DSL is about 15 bucks cheaper and the down seems to be about half of what cable was. I get about 1200 to 1500 kbps down compared to the 3000+ kbps my cable averaged. Up seems to be the same 384 kbps for both. I haven't had the DSL for but a month tops, but I had the cable for years and years. The other thigs I notice are my dynamic IP address changes a LOT on the DSL connection - sometimes daily, and my cable changed maybe once every 30 to 60 days or so unless I intentionally cycled the modem durring peak hours and it grabbed a new one. I've read and heard about the constant speeds DSL are supposed to be vs the way cable fluctuates depending on the number of people using your particular node, but I never noticed any big bogs in performance with the cable at peak hours unless they were having problems with their network and that was admittedly rare. Maybe once or twice a year I'd notice it? If that. I live in a fairly big city with a LOT of people hooked up via cable broadband, too. The other thing I've noticed with the DSL is that I get about 10 times the number of port scans that trigger my firewall software than I ever did on the cable connection. I suppose that's probably mainly because of the frequency my IP address changes on DSL, but it is annoying.

[Dr. DOS]

Soon SBC will own everything and you will see more states listed instead of only a dozen plus.... wait... they just bought ATT for a few $$ billion... wonder how long it will be before they will offer $20 DSL to everyone in the country. Maybe I can say bye-bye verizon....

[ViRaL1]

I've said this for years, but SBC is the NEW AT&T. They're rebuilding the empire.

[bazooka]

Maybe I can say bye-bye verizon....

Doubtful, as verizon is about to offer cable television through it's fiber optic lines.

[pyrate83]

Maybe I can say bye-bye verizon....

Doubtful, as verizon is about to offer cable television through it's fiber optic lines.

I hadn't heard about that. If Verizon starts offering cable TV at a decent price that would make them a serious competitor to SBC and Cingular wouldn't it?

[yoda313]

Hello,

YES SIGN UP!!!!!!!!!

I did in NOVEMBER when they were first pitching the offer - you have to have the all distance package to qualify.

Well worth it and LIGHTYEARS ahead of dialup

Kevin

[Roundabout]

All distance package here in CA costs $48.95/mo.

Then you have to pay the $20/mo for DSL on top of it, so you have a total of over $70/mo if you include taxes.

That's way out of my budget right now.

I don't make a lot of long distance calls, and when I do, I pay only $0.01/min with a calling card from local 99c Stores. Hard to justify almost $50/mo. for long distance calling I don't need.

This plan is good, though, for those who do need it. It just won't work in cases like mine, it's a budget buster.

So for now, I'm stuck with dial-up.

[yoda313]

Hello,

roundabout - Yeah the phone package deal only saves money if you don't have another calling option. It would be cheaper for cable if you don't have the phone package already.

But for those that do it's a wonderful bonus - and it was only $10 a month more than the SBC dial up I was already using so it was a no brainer

Kevin

[bazooka]

Maybe I can say bye-bye verizon....

Doubtful, as verizon is about to offer cable television through it's fiber optic lines.

I hadn't heard about that. If Verizon starts offering cable TV at a decent price that would make them a serious competitor to SBC and Cingular wouldn't it?

Yep, Verizon would also be competing against Comcast and Time Warner.