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

[mitch Stanley]

Hi , Thank you for replying so quickly. We live in Redlands & we pay
for Fiberoptic
Interne <http://www.lomalinda-ca.gov/services/l_l_c_c_p/>t @ 15MB for $30 /
month. I was hoping Portland had caught up to Ashland ,OR & had deployed
Fiber too.

Thanks Again, Mitch Stanley

On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 4:44 PM, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
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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