About a year ago my wife and I decided to drop our home phone service get new cell phones and switch to cable for internet.

WORST DECISION EVER!!!!!!!

We had down load speeds as low as 33Kbps. Yes folks that is slower than dial up. The only time I was ever able to get speeds approaching what I would consider high speed internet (1200Kbps) was after 10pm usually later than that. I made customer service complaint calls daily until they finally just canceled my service with no penalty to my contract. Switched back to DSL and haven't had a download speed under 1300Kbps since.

SBC guarantees minimum download speeds of at least 1200Kbps for their cheapest service. Cable wouldn't guarantee shit, and they would only allow me one computer on their network. SBC supplied me with a ten port wireless hub when I resigned with them. They feel the same as I do, once line gets to my house it's my business what I do with it and how much I split it.

Cable put a maximum download of 1GB of data per month with an extra charge if I went over it. SBC doesn't put any sort of limit on how much I can download.

Cable cost me $50 a month, I pay $15 a month for DSL.

You couldn't pay me to go back to cable.

Now DSL wasn't all wine and roses either for a while. We live in an old house with old phone lines. It used to be that every time it rained we'd lose connection. What was really messed up is that when we lost connection if we made a phone call it would reconnect the DSL to the internet so it was hard to prove to tech support we were being disconnected. I finally got if fixed by threatening to switch to cable (this was before I made the actual switch to cable), and report them to the BBB. They came out and replaced the line from my house to the box and I haven't been disconnected for any extended period since then. I do kicked a couple of times per week but it's nothing like it used to be and it's a small price to pay to actually get the speed which I'm paying for.

SBC offers other packages for more money.

Actually this thread reminds me that my contract with them is nearly up.

The site I use for speed tests.