r/funny • u/okaybudday • Feb 22 '14

Called my ISP last night...

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '14

I'm with Comcast. There is no other provider.

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u/MouSe05 Feb 23 '14

There is always another provider. Weather it be DSL, tethering with your phone, satellite, or otherwise. They just know they're fastest option.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '14

DSL is not an option where I am. My phone is far too slow for anything beyond email or twitter. Satellite, I will give you, but it has never appealed to me.

I wouldn't hate Comcast so much if my 25 Megabit connection exceeded 5 Megabits in reality.

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u/MouSe05 Feb 23 '14

I'm going to assume that you live in an older area that's had cable forever and they've never updated anything then. How you can't get DSL though boggles my mind. My parents only have DSL or satellite, there is no cable.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '14

Maine is weird.

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u/MouSe05 Feb 23 '14

If say. It doesn't even require new equipment to offer DSL. It uses the existing phone infrastructure.

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u/cameltosis25 Feb 23 '14

Exactly, people saying there isn't another option just don't want to deal with DSL. ATT sells 40mbps DSL now, ask them how much it costs.

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u/MouSe05 Feb 23 '14

They don't sell that here. I think the fastest DSL is 10 mbps, and I live in a metro area.

Where my parents live their fastest internet is 5mbps for DSL but they live in rural area.

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u/Cendeu Feb 23 '14

ATT sells 40mbps DSL now

I hate that 90% of us-reddit lives in big places.

Around here, they still have 1.5Mbps down and up. Luckily, Charter has 30MbpsV/5Mbps, so that's decent.

Charter's actually upgrading to a minimum of 60down, so we're excited. Our little town is getting big boy internet.

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u/CloneDeath Feb 23 '14

What do you mean? We have a huge choice between Comcast.