Alternatives to Comcast

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Tue May 20 22:44:31 EDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 22:34 -0400, Chip Marshall wrote:
> On May 20, 2008, Dan Miller sent me the following:
> > Various things Comcast is doing is driving me away. They used to be 
> > decent, but now they are horrible.
> >
> > What ISP is a good alternative to Comcast?
> 
> This seem to be a recurring topic. Perhaps it should be added to the
> wiki? The general concensus seems to be MV or Speakeasy for DSL service.
> 
> > What cable/satellite provider is better than Comcast?
> 
> NH seems to have this thing against competition among cable providers.
> 
> For what it's worth, back when I had DirecTV, I noticed the same MPEG
> encoding artifacts that I see on Comcast, generally during high motion
> scenes or scenes with low lighting. From what I've heard, Comcast does
> use less bandwidth per channel than DirecTV, but you're going to get
> compression artifacts with any digital provider.

Haven't noticed any with Verizon FiOS TV... But then I really didn't
notice any with Comcast either before I had FiOS TV.


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com



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