[PLUG] Returning to SW Portland after 6 Years- Suggestions for Broadband incl Cable , DSL & Fiber Optic.

Tom Sharples tsharples at qorvus.com
Wed Aug 1 18:26:55 UTC 2018


I've had the basic slow Comcast business service with 5 static IPs for 
years. I recently called them and threatened to go over to centurylink 
if they didn't give me more bandwidth. After about 15 minutes of 
haranguing they did agree to give me 75 down and 20 up for three years 
at just another $20 a month (so $115 total) which is around $30 / mo 
less than their regular price for that package over here in the Couve. 
So there is some ability to negotiate.

Since making that upgrade I have also noticed that every once in a while 
my upstream speed is way faster than downstream. Just tested it at 101 
mb/s. Not sure why.

Tom S.


On 7/28/2018 4:44 PM, Russell Senior wrote:
> My main advice is, as companies, they are all horrible. The service itself
> is usually okay, the prices and policies are all "take-it-or-leave-it"
> (Comcast might be more likely to cut temporary special deals, but you
> usually have to have long telephone conversations every 6 months or so to
> keep them in place). CenturyLink has some innovative (i.e. fraudulent)
> billing practices that they are currently being sued over. So, shop around.
> Play one off against the other to the extent you can. DSL is a dead-end
> product, so I'd avoid it. Maybe some day we'll have a municipal fiber
> system, but not for a few years under the best case scenario.  I have the
> CenturyLink gigabit service. They are fraudulently charging me $5/month
> more than they said they would. No transfer cap, I paid extra for a static
> IP ($75 setup + $10/month).  Total on the last bill was $95, but should be
> $90. I rarely see more than ~30Mbps from any real service, but speedtest.net
> says I'm getting close-ish to a gigabit. Usually upstream speeds register
> higher than downstream. If you are going to upload big files, fiber has a
> practical advantage over cable, which tends to have pretty low upstream
> speeds (which they don't talk very much about because "you are a consumer,
> dammit").  CenturyLink has lower speed tiers for less money, but I believe
> there are monthly caps.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 3:32 PM, mitch Stanley <webuyhousesphxaz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, We are moving back to SW Portland , & we only had the choice of Comcast
>> Or Century Link for Broadband, I believe I'm still restricted to them but
>> if you have a link ,advice  ect please email
>>
>> me  directly Or post on PLUG.
>>
>> Thank you in Advance  , Mitch Stanley
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