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$77 per month avg ($19 to $347)

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Review by jadebangle See Profile
UPDATED: 272 days ago
member for 2.5 years, 112 visits, last login: 72 days ago


Olathe,Johnson,KS
$53 per month
"You get connected immediately if you already own a modem"
"Its expensive for broadband, a lot of slow down during business hour"
"Speed is better then DSL, you get advertised speed"
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    My Other Reviews·SureWest Internet
    ·AT&T Yahoo
    2/21/09: we have cease to have service since two week ago because we can only afford to keep one connection. we may signup again if extra connection is needed
    It was ok but nothing great about it... we pay a lot for a connection that are shared among many user in our neighborhood. i didn't have much problem dealing with customer service. they gotta make money no matter how bad the service is. the people who work at isp is not the problem its the company that makes policy that goes against our needs for unlimited usage.

    8/2 was good for me but I had to cancel it due to this silly caps of 250gb...
    I can easily max out that in just 3 days! I'm not heavy user but I do it just for fun
    cap is not something that anyone should tolerate
    even if they offer me 100mb symmetrical for 52.95 a month then decide to just cut me off after 250gb what use is it?

    If i go to a buffet and then get told sorry you can't have anymore because we need to reserve those for others whats the point of a buffet then?

    unlimited connection = unlimited usage
    how many are going to leave their computer on while using little to no bandwidth?

    Instead of saying use as much as you like they say you can only use this much because thats what we decided and if you don't like it then find an alternative or don't have service with us. at the same time comcast will try to keep competition from servicing their area. wonderful aren't they? they got us by the ball, if their is competition then it would be impossible to implement their cap and restrict our usage

    comcast would be the only aternative to something faster then dsl if that is all that is offered in your area. their so called boost only last 10mbyte
    Thats right 10 measly mb!!! this would last 10 sec or less
    Another useless feature that offer user higher speedtest to fake their connection speed as advertisement for comcast as being faster without giving us permanent faster speed



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    perki

    join:2008-12-01
    Santa Maria, CA
    ·Verizon Online DSL
    ·Comcast
    ·VOIPo
    ·Vonage
    ·VoipYourLife

    Wait so you download 83 gigs a day?

    And your not a, "heavy user." That is 2 and a half Terabytes a month! That also means you run your connection none stop. Huh? So what is a "heavy user" to you? Mathematically there cannot be a heaver user than you. Unless of course they had a higher package.
    permalink · 2009-02-07 16:11:26 · Reply to this

    jadebangle
    Premium
    join:2007-05-22
    Olathe, KS
    ·SureWest Internet
    ·AT&T Yahoo
    ·Comcast

    Re: Wait so you download 83 gigs a day?

    said by perki See Profile :

    And your not a, "heavy user." That is 2 and a half Terabytes a month! That also means you run your connection none stop. Huh? So what is a "heavy user" to you? Mathematically there cannot be a heaver user than you. Unless of course they had a higher package.
    I would go for 50mb package if it were cheaper
    Maybe sometime in the near future if it does get cheaper or I somehow won a lottery
    If you do down and up its 5 tb not 2.5tb lol
    full duplex symmetrical not asymmetrical or half duplex
    10/10 vs comcast 8/2
    the only saving grace is the symmetrical speed
    if it was 10/2 or 10/1 i would not bother.
    i dont alway download 86gb a day but i was just making a point. this all depend on what type of stuff i like and how huge... so it could be far less then you thought.
    why download stuff just to keep my connection maxed out?
    it would be pointless... it must be something i like.

    me a heavy user? lol. far from it. far from it.
    i often do not like to download much but just having the option allow me to breathe much easier without having to worry that my connection are shut off cause the isp find me not very profitable for their business practice
    i would download nonstop for 3 days then for another week do obsolutely nothing but read email and surf the web, that require little bandwidth.
    i find power boost a type of steroid for cable company next to useless... its cable on drugs.
    the saving grace for att dsl is no cap as of now so as soon as the cap are enforced we are in big trouble
    20gb,40gb,60gb,80gb,and150gb for uverse.
    It is impossible to be a heavy user on 10mb or slower tier
    but it is possible with 50mb or higher...
    even 20mbit imho are for casual user who are pleased that its already faster then most
    If you compared 10mbit vs 100mbit... no matter how much 10mbit uses you would only be using 1/10 of a 100mbit connection at best.
    so tell me what do you know how about heavy usage
    permalink · 2009-02-08 11:18:08 · Print · Reply to this

    smarterthanU

    @comcast.net

    Re: Wait so you download 83 gigs a day?

    You certainly can spew a load of words without providing useful content. Point is (as you know since you claim to have an intimate understanding of bandwidth) while you're maxing out your bandwidth downloading goodness knows what at 80G a day, your neighbors can get nothing accomplished because you've managed to tie up all of the unlimited bandwidth they've also paid for and are therefor entitled to according to your perspective. You *do* understand that the bandwidth on a given node is shared, right?
    permalink · 2009-02-13 08:56:00 · Reply to this

    jadebangle
    Premium
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    Olathe, KS
    ·SureWest Internet
    ·AT&T Yahoo
    ·Comcast

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    Re: Wait so you download 83 gigs a day?

    said by smarterthanU :

    You certainly can spew a load of words without providing useful content. Point is (as you know since you claim to have an intimate understanding of bandwidth) while you're maxing out your bandwidth downloading goodness knows what at 80G a day, your neighbors can get nothing accomplished because you've managed to tie up all of the unlimited bandwidth they've also paid for and are therefor entitled to according to your perspective. You *do* understand that the bandwidth on a given node is shared, right?
    That's why it sucks... I know that one of these day either they drop me or i drop them but it never came to this point since I'm no heavy user. I will use more with faster connection and use less with slower connection. Its an automatic thing. Why I have to use less bandwidth the faster our connection are say 100mbit if it existed? How about why drive like a snail if you have a fast car?

    I am casual user. Who will sometime use a lot and sometime use none. I like to use it as much as I like
    Saying that I slow you down because I am maxing out my connection only further prove my point how much cable comcast sucked big time.

    Enjoy your slow shared connection I see you like to complain about user instead of bandwidth limitation... Don't blame the user for it blame the cable company for not investing in a bigger pipeline or faster backbone with 1gpbs instead of multiple T1,T3 that are inferior and expensive to maintain.
    permalink · 2009-02-21 15:38:01 · Print · Reply to this
    billypilgrim

    join:2007-10-18
    Jacksonville, FL    		 If I'm not mistaken I believe 250gb is only a quarter of a terabyte, terabyte being 1000 gb.
    permalink · 2009-02-22 03:28:54 · Reply to this

    perki

    join:2008-12-01
    Santa Maria, CA

    Re: Wait so you download 83 gigs a day?

    i meant if he ran his connection none stop it would equal 2 and half terabytes a month.
    permalink · 2009-02-23 05:33:56 · Reply to this
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