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Author Message   Greg Davis (Gregdavis) Senior Member Username: Gregdavis Post Number: 1120 Registered: 08-2002 Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 11:21 am:    What's your recommended provider? I'm on MSN, and I've had it with them. 80% of the time I can't get logged in, either at home or at work. Lately I've only been able to check e-mail about once a day. I can be off-line for days, but when I attempt to log in, it says I've had too many unsuccessful attempts. Anyway, since I'm going to change, what are some suggestions?   Steve Andrews (Sillybus) Senior Member Username: Sillybus Post Number: 406 Registered: 08-2002 Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 11:54 am:    Greg, I'd look into Comcast or another cable modem provider. I'm not on Comcast but a local yocal cable provider and I love the bandwidth and reliability. For the price to bandwidth ratio, its pretty hard to beat. I've never been happy with MSN or AOL FWIW.   CALM (Gumarcel) Senior Member Username: Gumarcel Post Number: 1159 Registered: 11-2002 Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 11:56 am:    I have comcast, and it is pretty good, haven't really had any problems at all with. I use AOL also and am happy with it.   Bill Bettridge (Billb) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Billb Post Number: 1357 Registered: 02-2002 Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 11:57 am:    I've tried a bunch also and so far Comcast cable modem has been pretty good - though I live in a rural area where I don't believe to many other people are on the line with cable modems so my speed is very high (for the moment) Bill   Baron (Chris_browne) Senior Member Username: Chris_browne Post Number: 544 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 12:09 pm:    comcast too, got a email from them telling me to increase speed by turning modem off for a minute.....noticeable increase......but have problems with web cams and slow transmission...but only sometimes... Suggestions   Brian Dickens (Bri) Senior Member Username: Bri Post Number: 915 Registered: 08-2002 Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 12:48 pm:    I have had msn and DSL for 3 years, maybe about 16 hours downtime.   Martin Tuip (Ajax) Member Username: Ajax Post Number: 57 Registered: 06-2003 Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 12:52 pm:    I tried comcast for 3 weeks and was impressed with the speed they offer. I now use Verizon DSL which offers half the speed of what comcast has and so far I haven't had any problems. The only thing I've seen at Verizon is at least 2 hackattempts per day on my computer so I strongly suggest using either a personal firewall or a hardware firewall for protection.   Steve Andrews (Sillybus) Senior Member Username: Sillybus Post Number: 407 Registered: 08-2002 Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 01:48 pm:    The firewall is a must for any broadband service... especially if you get a static IP address.