Getting internet at your apartment

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>With AT&T, you get a $10/mo discount if you get a phone line. The cheapest phone line, the measured rate, is ~$8/mo + taxes/fees = ~$12/mo. I got one because it’s nice to have backup when your cell phone doesn’t work, and it’s cheap.</p>

<p>In any case, if you’re experiencing excessive downtime with any internet, make sure your equipment is not at fault! Internet going down due to your laptop losing wireless connectivity = your equipment. The same applies if the router overheats. It’s only the provider’s fault if all your equipment is fully operational, but the uplink is having issues.</p>

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<p>^ i thought it was true that comcast has random down times though.</p>

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<p>Comcast doesn’t tend to randomly “go down” per-se, but it has jams, some of which are so bad that it might as well be down-time, and this happens on a very frequent basis. It’s especially true in college towns like Berkeley because there tends to be lots of students pounding the internet at the same time.</p>

<p>It’s like those cases where you’re in a traffic jam on a bridge, and you can’t seem to tell whether it’s just a really bad traffic jam or a “bridge-out”.</p>