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Comcast, when I checked them out, is $42.95 for basic service (if you're a current customer, namely because they have to give you basic tv cable service in order to give you the internet line, non-customers pay $54, which just happens to be $12 more, which is the cost of their basic service... no savings there...), $3 for leasing a modem which isn't bad, but add another $20 regardless if you own or lease a modem just to use the bloody thing on their network. I think there's another $10 fee in there somewhere, as I recall the total monthly fee being a disgusting $78.
Better check to see if they have a firewall to hide everybody else on the same segment, otherwise you could snoop your neighborhood's computers and likely not get caught...
Also, if everybody on your segment is using the cable connection, expect performance to go down. While 2Mb sounds nice on the surface, it's not going to be consistent, especially if your neighborhood has got a lot of people the cable company services...
Dunno. DSL ultimately costs more for higher speeds (>640k) than cable, but the speed is consistent and per-user rather than per-segment. That's a fair tradeoff if you ask me. The only condition is making sure you're close enough to a point-of-presence hub or else DSL speed becomes pointless after 3 miles...
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