If you can't get sonic's ADSL2+, they also have regular ADSL with an AT&T line share. (ADSL2+ doesn't require a AT&T line)
With ADSL, it should be < $15/month for the required phone line, if you go with with measured rate service, and the taxes in your area aren't absurd. For the top of the line DSL service (6M/768k) with 8 static ips, the out of contract price is $69.96/month. For 6M/768k with 1 dynamic ip, out of contract is $40/month.
I use Sonic's regular DSL and I've been happy with it. They have that small ISP feel that I remember from the 90s. They stay out of my way, which I appreciate.
I can second sonic, they've been great. We have two 15/1 at the office in soma, ~$100/mo iirc. I also use them at home, 6/768 for the intro $35, which they extended past the first year when we asked. It has just worked with no hassles.
rawbandwidth.comdmartiOctober 8 2009, 20:00:32 UTC
I have rawbandwidth.com for a home office plan with 5 static IP addresses. Always been happy with it, and there is no clueless customer service or support layer in the company as far as I can tell. You can get a person who knows what he's doing on the phone, quickly. One of many Mike Durkin stories:
U-Verse is available in the south bay and, generally speaking, it's either exclusively a FiOS market or exclusively an U-Verse market. My experience with U-Verse in San Jose was pretty good, and certainly a step up from PacBell/SBC/AT&T DSL with the CO right around the corner. It's VDSL, so you're stuck with AT&T's hardware (2Wire Residential Gateway, which is obtrusive, but can be coaxed into acting as a glorified modem), but it's less distance sensitive. 18 down / 1.5 up runs ~$65 per month for unbundled internet.
We had pretty serious issues with Speakeasy at work (expensive, pain in the ass to move from one location to another). I finally convinced our workplace to get a comcast business line, along with two AT&T DSL backup lines. AT&T's gone down a few time, but comcast's still pretty stable.
And I use the economic comcast residential service ($25/mo, woohoo! + free basic cable that I don't watch). It gives me about 120 KB/s down, 30-50 KB/s up, with "SpeedBoost" (first 1 MB travels really quickly, and then gets throttled).
I use BitTorrent, but I have encryption preferred checked and I don't usually see any problems.
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With ADSL, it should be < $15/month for the required phone line, if you go with with measured rate service, and the taxes in your area aren't absurd. For the top of the line DSL service (6M/768k) with 8 static ips, the out of contract price is $69.96/month. For 6M/768k with 1 dynamic ip, out of contract is $40/month.
Contract rates are here
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I use Sonic's regular DSL and I've been happy with it. They have that small ISP feel that I remember from the 90s. They stay out of my way, which I appreciate.
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http://lists.svlug.org/archives//svlug/2005-January/022526.html
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For ~$90/month, you can get 25/15, and it's quite dependable (at least here on the East Coast).
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And I use the economic comcast residential service ($25/mo, woohoo! + free basic cable that I don't watch). It gives me about 120 KB/s down, 30-50 KB/s up, with "SpeedBoost" (first 1 MB travels really quickly, and then gets throttled).
I use BitTorrent, but I have encryption preferred checked and I don't usually see any problems.
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If you have line of sight and can put up an antenna, a friend has their 6mbps symmetrical package at $99 (I think it is cheaper now) and loves it.
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