[John Burns]

I just had an offer from my ISP (Cox Cable) to upgrade my internet service to Premier ($15 additional per month) which gets up to 9 megs. Has anyone experienced this with their cable provider- and is it worth it? My current service is pretty good, so I am hesitant to spend another $15 per month (currently paying $39.95 per month) unless it is really worth the money. Appreciate any input. Thanks.

[imidiot]

are you happy with what you have? if so, why pay more for a service not needed?

[John Burns]

That is my thinking too! So many ways out there to get my money, I guess. I think I would have to upgrade my wireless connection, router, etc. which also would be additional expense.

[JohnWill]

I've considered upgrading to Comcast's "premium" service for $10/mo, it give you 768kbit upstream instead of 384kbit upstream. The only reason is that I use a VPN to one of my clients, and it's pretty painful at 384kbit speeds. My 6mbit download speed is plenty for me, I can't imagine needing more right now.

[hewee]

I have comcast and we still have 4 MB out here because they had trouble and it was at 6 MB for only a day or so. So us here in Ca. are still waiting to get what everyone else has.

[JohnWill]

My daughter lives 20 minutes from me, and they still have the 3000/384 service with Comcast. I guess they need to do something to move the service out there...

[hewee]

What why so slow for her. I mean I thought everyone went to 4 MB last year or around the first of this year.

Bet she pays the same as you do too.

I mean if they do not get things fix soon they should lower are rates because we are all paying the same but not everyone is getting the same speed.

[JohnWill]

I'm still holding out hope for Verizon to get fiber to my house someday. I live out pretty far, so I suspect it'll be some time before that happens...

[hewee]

Waiting here also for the other High speed people to get out here to my part of town. We have just comcast but there are two others in the next town. One way on the other side of me and the other way out on this side of town. They said it will be 3 years for it to get to us and I think that was like two years ago. But still I think it will be even later after they get around are town before they come way out where I am because there are not many homes so it will cost them to much. The fiber in the other town was easy to do because of all the new homes so it was cheap to put in and start a new Highspeed company. Same in the other town on the other side of the county but they have cable. But we do have others around and I like to see all 3 for use to pick from and prices drop.

[JohnWill]

I doubt I'll see an other high speed options than Comcast for some time here...

[hewee]

Same here because what they say is going to happen and what really happens takes a lot longer. The one first other company that was going to give all this great speed went under after a short time. So for me there is still only comcast.
Well DSL from the phone company but I am to far out so I don't have them to pick from either.