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Age old debate: Sonic vs. AT&T vs. Comcast

Watching hd on Amazon prime eats up data quite fast.
 
wazzuFreddo said:
What are you guys doing that you have to worry about Dada caps? Downloading Blue-Rays 24/7? :laughing
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Watch an hour or two of Netflix in HD, that's 3GB per hour or 7GB if you have a fancy 4K TV.

Automatic Windows Updates that you can't disable. Couple gigs maybe per month.

Play a video game? Need an update? Buy a PC game on Steam? Download the whole game at 40-50GB.

Back up your iProduct or Android to the cloud? Who knows.

It's fucking easy to go through 300GB per month.

Regardless -- who gives a shit? Data is not finite. It doesn't make a damn bit of difference how much you use or don't use. Do you get a refund if you use less? Hell no you don't.

Data caps are a straight up money grab by greedy as fuck companies.
 
Comcast is great until you have to deal with them

AT&T is my favorite if you can get it.

Sonic is ok, nothing fancy and you'll know it.
 
Google fiber if you can get it.

Independent fiber if you can't.

Might think it's too expensive or excessive, but have you seriously tried to deal with a cable company?
 
Sonic's new Fusion service is a repackaged U-Verse service that runs within the VRAD (so you get phone and internet service. It's up to 20Mbs or 40Mbs depending on which you choose, and of course other factors such as distance to the VRAD box in your neighborhood. You get an AT&T installer, AT&T wireless router and AT&T DNS. However, with sonic.net, you can use their SonicVPN service via OpenVPN and use Sonic's DNS. They keep their user logs for two weeks for diagnostic purposes. There is no download cap either.


In addition, their phone support is in Santa Rosa and they are pretty good.

I believe Sonic's service is packaged as an Enterprise/Business class client service so when there is an issue, you get that level of support and turnaround from AT&T.

I love sonic. I've been using them since their dial-up days (circa 1996). If you can get it, why not try it out.

I think if one wants Comcast, get their business class service. Their support is better.
 
in my east san ho neighborhood, Compost sucks but AT&T was worse, and those are our only options.

"we can send you high speed internet, but we can't promise you will receive high speed internet", though we will bill you for it.
 
psychocandy said:
Zero interest in cable or phone service.
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When I had Comcast years back, not only was it cheaper to get Internet and basic cable, but it also got me faster internet speeds vs getting just internet alone. I never watched tv on the cable package. Just signed up for it.

It was something stupid like 10mbs for $50/month vs 20mbs + tv for $45 a month.
 
Admittedly, as much as I hate comcast, I use them. When I disconnected from them, I did my research into Sonic, a couple locals, at&t and ultimately, went back to comcast. With any DSL service in the Oakland area, they are all riding at&t lines (or that is what my research showed.) and for the price, I got comcast with boost for $44 a month and when wired see a range of 140 - 175 mpbs, wireless I see 95-120 mbps. Both have spiked higher, but rarely see lower
 
Just got Sonic installed today.

Speedtest results says 300Mbps down/up over wifi and (holy shit) 900Mbps down and 900Mbps up over ethernet!
 
mototireguy said:
Just got Sonic installed today.

Speedtest results says 300Mbps down/up over wifi and (holy shit) 900Mbps down and 900Mbps up over ethernet!
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Did you get their new fiber service? I hope they roll that out to my neighborhood.

In the meantime, I am happy with the Sonic DSL service I have.
 
wazzuFreddo said:
Did you get their new fiber service? I hope they roll that out to my neighborhood.
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Yes it's a fiber optic line from telephone pole to splitter on the roof, fiber line into apt, fiber line into decoder, ethernet from decoder into router/wifi/gateway.

Adios $110/month donkey punch monopoly Comcast :twofinger
 
shoot, if that comes to oakland, I would be willing to dump comcrap for that. hell yeah.
 
mototireguy correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't sound like you have a common DSL setup. Are you in a large apartment complex, by chance?

I think for the average person, if you want good consistent fast service, get Comcast Business. The business division is a totally separate BU with much better service levels and quality of service. Yes, it will cost a little extra.
 
Kee-rist. i see that at work. But my home Sonic connection is 2.5 down, 1.5 up.

mototireguy said:
Just got Sonic installed today.

Speedtest results says 300Mbps down/up over wifi and (holy shit) 900Mbps down and 900Mbps up over ethernet!
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psychocandy said:
I posted this in the website/geek speak forum, but it seems pretty slow in there.

Moving into a new house, gotta sort out internet.

Sonic.net is where I'm leaning.

AT&T is in consideration only because after getting a probably good new customer deal for a year, was thinking we could look into negotiating a combined internet/wireless bill (we're currently on T-Mobile).

Comcast is not really in the running at all, but they're the 3rd option so I thought I'd see if anyone wanted to defend them.

Anyone have anything to add to the usual debate? Specifically, would AT&T actually care enough to keep my business to offer me a nice internet/wireless package after my initial year at an introductory rate is up? If they're unlikely to do this, I'm not really interested in having to set up internet with another company a year from now.

Oh yeah, 3 person household near the lake in Oakland, probably a fairly average amount of streaming/torrenting. No gamers or heavy duty streaming, but we do spend a lot of time on our computers. Also, ZERO INTEREST IN TV/CABLE.
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I feel that AT&T and Comcast are both a disaster. If you can get Sonic, get it.
 
mercurial said:
mototireguy correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't sound like you have a common DSL setup. Are you in a large apartment complex, by chance?

I think for the average person, if you want good consistent fast service, get Comcast Business. The business division is a totally separate BU with much better service levels and quality of service. Yes, it will cost a little extra.
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$100/month for 25mbps? Nah.

Plus you're still giving comcast money, and fuck them.
 
Sonic fiber if you can get it (I can't, but still use Sonic anyway). Plus they support Net Neutrality and User Privacy, which I am a huge fan of.
 
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