I suggest a router instead of a cheapo modem because you can run two machines off a router without having to pay ATT an extra 5 bux a month.
So will you be going back to 1050 now that you have good news?

It looks like they are moving me back out to 7717 this week **gulp**

beware oversold cable -- my husband has this problem in Michigan. When he's playing UT with a really long ping time, he jokes with other players about "Beware my massive ping!"

Are there folks in your neighborhood who have it already? maybe they'd let you check their ping times. Try going door to door, then report back!

yeah my cousin had that problem

Well do you have that problem Pete? You are in my hood so if I got a Cable modem it would be on the same fiber optic fat pipe are you.

I have a linksys wired/wireless router. It's friggen awesome. I have my entire house (4+ machines) running off it. I'll give up my left nut before I get rid of my cable modem.

I'm with whistler ... I've got the linksys cable modem hooked up to the wireless router which lets me roam around the 3 level townhouse on my laptop, and still have my high speed access. Haven't had ANY problems with the linksys (not like the motorola cable modem i had before).

I too would rather have dsl, but this was the cheaper route, and cheaper is better right now.

I don't have a very large apartment so I don't think I will go with Wireless networking but giving up a nut is a bold statement.

I get really good download speed at home Jake. I think that you will get about 1.5MB per second. That is my average speed but I live around a bunch of old folks too. I say go for it DAWG! WORD TO DA XBOX. BLING! You know what would be cool? If you could play an xbox game like medal of honor online with your xbox and i could play it at the same time on my PC. There will come a day, i bet, when this is possible and the world will be a better place.

Actually Xbox live is a closed network. The Disadvantages is that you can’t play PC gamers but the advantage is that you make sure that everyone has a fast connection, voice communication, The latest software updates and get this… NO ONLINE CHEATING ON XBOX LIVE.

NO online cheating is worth the hassle. I would pay an extra 10 bux a month for that guarantee on the web games i play.

Cable? Slow ping times? Can't be nearly as bad as the satellite at work... ;P

I had a thought today, while searching the internet and feel the need to let the world know about it.

It would seem residentail satellites technology for broadband for the most part works perfectly fine, with the exception of ping times. Large ping number which is the time it takes the packet to reach its target traveling up to the orbiting station, and to the target then back again this is no secret.

I was thinking about this problem again for the billionth time and it occurred to me today for the first time that if the problem is'nt the technology its only the distance the packet travels. Why are'nt terrestrial broadband providers limiting that distance, and utilizing this satellite technologies from their last mile stations? It would seem to me that they would be able to deliver broadband solutions, no matter how far you live from the routing station, as long as you can get line of site or close to line of site from the satellite or antenna on your house then you be able to establish broadband connectivity at any visible distance. I understand they wanted to use RF signals to do it before but due to the flakeyness of the signal strength it was almost impossible to make any reliable consistant connection. I would expect that the cost would be lower, deployment would be fast and the promise of "Real" broadband could easily become a reality. If anyone can provide legit reasoning of why this wouldnt work please let me know.