 Review by MrBradTX 
UPDATED: 136 days ago
member for 7.5 years, 2446 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Carrollton,Denton,TX
 $46 per month
 "reasonable price for 10 Mb service"
 "outbound email sometimes gets spamlisted due to RR reputation"
 "best available option at my home"
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Started with Excite@Home in 2000, as home is just barely too far from CO for DSL. Lived through transitions to ATT@Home, ATT Broadband, Comcast.
Evidently RR has a reputation for being a spam facilitator. Even though I bought a personal domain for email, my outbound emails occasionally get blacklisted because they originate from a RR IP block. Grrr.
FIOS 10,000/2,000 is available at my home (in fact Verizon dug up my sprinkler system while laying the fiber) so 6,000/384 seems a little puny. Waiting for CC-to-RR transition to stabilize to see whether RR will boost speeds.
UPDATE: RR bumped me to 10,000/1,000 at no extra cost and without having to ask. Gotta be a competitive match thing. I guess getting my sprinkler dug up was worth something.
Followup comments:  | JeffBullard
join:2006-12-16
Houston, TX
 ·Verizon FIOS
| FiOS or RR cable in DFW According to Time Warner, they have a 10/1 service already available in our area (I live in Las Colinas part of Irving). For concurrent cable subscribers the 10/1 service is 49.95 per month. I have not tried it in this area (Irving, TX) because of the Comcast/TW merger issues. But in Houston the RR service through Time Warner was great. My IP address only changed twice in about two years. There was only one outage in my area and that lasted only about 4 hours.
I have a fairly lengthy review and discussion about the FiOS service on this site. RR/Time Warner is a slightly better product IMO. FiOS formerly had a better price point but Verizon is raising prices - on their website the 15/2 package is now $49.95. The speed difference is slight (15/2 vs. 10/1) and you probably won't notice any difference unless you do a lot of large file UPloads. Another difference is port blocking: Verizon does block ports and Time Warner does not (in our area). This is only an issue if you want to have web pages hosted on your home comupter. | |
| iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Fredericksburg, TX | You might want to check FiOS again... Verizon has raised their entry-level tier to 10 Mbit down, 2 up. $43 with phone service, $48 without. Rather expensive, but that's a nice upload boost, with the option of upgrading to extreme speeds with little effort. Just sayin' | |
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