[TriLUG] Earthlink Cable Internet - any comments?

[Mike Mueller]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 21:30, Jason Tower wrote:

I switched from Earthlink DSL to Earthlink Cable a few week ago.  That caused 
them some heartburn at first.  I have a second phone line so they used that 
number to make the change.  After the service was installed, I had to hard 
reset my router applicance to make it forget about PPPoE.   I ran with both 
DSL and Cable for 2 weeks.  When I called to turn off the DSL service, they 
forgot to tell me about a change they made to my email service.  An hour on 
the phone (mostly waiting) was all it took to get that straightened out.  
Since then things have been cool.  That's about par for the Earthlink course 
- changes can be bumpy at times.

DSL is 50/mn and Cable is 42/mn.  No brainer there - for me anyway.

I am not sorry to PPPoE go away.  I've always felt PPPoE was a waste of 
bandwidth to accomodate a dial-up customer system to HS customers.

Cable has a higher download bandwidth advertised.

Cable is more stable that DSL.

Cable doesn't allow static IP addresses right now.  It will in the future.  
DSL allows static addresses but it failed to work for me.

That's all that I can think of for now.

> i switched about two months ago to earthlink cable, it has been flawless
> since day 1.  in fact, i'm still on my original IP address.
>
> jason
>
> > Earthlink is offering an enticing combination of price and SkyMiles. Has
> > anyone used Earthlink cable internet service in the Triangle? Any
> > comments? It's dynamic-IP, which I don't love, but could live with if
> > necessary.
> >
> > Also, any comments on cable vs. DSL in terms of reliability and speed?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
> > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> > clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu

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mueller, mike

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