<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Todd Walton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com">tdwalton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Alan Maupin <<a href="mailto:alan.maupin@gmail.com">alan.maupin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'm asking for advice for a friend on Internet service in Ankeny. It's been<br>
> awhile since I've negotiated a deal and I'm not sure of what to tell her.<br>
> She's been offered two deals: Qwest 7 mbps for $41 per month and Mediacom<br>
> 8 mbps for $39. Since the price and download speeds are very similar what<br>
> other criteria should she consider? One possible negative is the fact that<br>
> Qwest requires a two year contract.<br>
<br>
</div>Given the otherwise comparable plans, the contract would be a definite<br>
no-go for me. Why should they get to lock you in like that? What if<br>
you don't like the service?<br></blockquote><div> </div></div>CHECK the deal with Mediacom. Is that pricing only for the first 12 months? What does the price change to after that?<br><br>I try to avoid mediacom purely on the principle of their misleading advertising. I'm on qwest now and have had awesome reliability. Mediacom wasn't bad (DNS was the biggest problem and opendns solved that) but my *feeling* is that qwest has been slightly better regarding reliability.<br>
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