So, I made the jump from my trusty DSL to Cable today. I was getting frustrated at the 384kbps throughput of DSL (I’m literally 17,200 feet from the CO, putting me at the far extreme of DSL accessibility). I called Comcast and it really couldn’t have been much easier. I activated the account on a 5 minute phone call, at the end of which the nice guy on the phone gave me his direct extension, telling me to call him back once I had bought a cablemodem. I picked up the cablemodem from Circuit City, called him back, he connected me with the engineering group who gave me the proxy server address to register the circuit and voila! On line.

I’m not sure what others are experiencing, but all I can say is I just downloaded a 10.5MB file in under 20 seconds. That would’ve taken me easily 4 minutes on DSL. Now I can’t wait for the next 60+MB OS update to release!

And it’s about 1/3 the price (even after the promotional period) what I was paying for DSL.