Fresh new pipes!

My first post on a new internet connection. Well my first post in a long time. I've only had AT&T DSL running for a few hours now, but already I've noticed an amazing connection quality difference. Considering the bandwidth is technically much lower than my former Broadstripe connection I'm not even sure how that is possible. My only regret so far is not switching way back when Millenium first decided to change to Broadstripe and "upgrade" their systems. My connection has gotten worse and worse since that day. The icing on the cake is that by the time my promotional pricing is over, the savings over Broadstripe will pay for the modem cost a hundred times over. Well not really, but $65 with broadstripe versus $25 with AT&T is still $480 dollars in savings in that first promotional year, and then $240 every year after that when AT&T goes back up to the standard $45 for the elite dsl without phone service.

And despite what I've heard, the customer service is way better. Hell the fact that they didn't just drill a fucking hole into my wall to pipe in the cable line is a huge step in the right direction, but I had all my connection issues sorted out in 15 minutes over the phone, which is amazing. After dealing with Microsoft over the phone earlier in the year I expected the worst.

I say that the bandwidth is lower, but you can never really be sure with cable, I could range anywhere from 10-4 mb/s down 0.1-1 mb/s up over a day, with DSL it's a constant 5 down-0.7 up, and I sort of appreciate that.

But enough with the add campaign, I'm sorry about that. I'm just really happy to not only have an internet provider that doesn't blow chunks, but a cheaper provider to boot.

I'm trying to get myself back on track after some trying issues, will report more frequently in the future.

Hal

:::Edit 3/30/2015::: I can't believe I ever used 5mb dsl.  I can barely stand the 16mb I have now!