Today is the day... well the first day, anyway. Comcast is going to install the business class service

If all goes well, I will run with DSL + Cable for a day or so while the DNS entries update over the weekend. Come Monday I will cut over fully to cable. By the end of the week I'll cancel DSL.

Why the switch? I love Sonic.net. I've been happy with the service. Ecstatic, really. They give "near business class" service, at top DSL speeds, at a fair but hardly discount price. The problem for me is, I live a bazillion miles away from the CO. So I am getting my great DSL speed (6M/.8) via a Remote Terminal. Cool, but pretty much that means I am going as fast over these copper wires as I ever will.

Comcast has a business class and a residential class product. The business class, with 5 static IPs, no caps, no throttles, etc, is pretty much the same cost as Sonic.net's DSL. As of 3/10, the speeds are 12/2, plus the speedboost. Yeah, 12/2. I need the 2 more then then 12, but I'll take the 12 as well.

Time to give it a go and see how it works.

Oh, and I guess I could have tried AT&T Uverse, but they don't seem to offer anything that is business class level (static IPs, faster uplinks, better support) and frankly I really think they've got to be compressing the daylights out of their video streams.