whats best embarq dsl or mediacom highspeed?

[chanster]

from what i can tell embarq is much more reliable. my livelihood depends on the all comments comparing the 2 appreciated. thanks as there's little i've found on this forum about embarq dsl and medicom seems to suck

 

[Miss Critter]

I've had embarq since May and my internet has been down only once and then only for 20-30 minutes. I'm in west SRB, not along 30a. Don't know if that matters. Good luck.

 

[wrobert]

I've had embarq since May and my internet has been down only once and then only for 20-30 minutes. I'm in west SRB, not along 30a. Don't know if that matters. Good luck.

For what it is worth I have a client in Seaside that told me his internet, Embarq, is down on a regular basis.

 

[NotDeadYet]

Have had Embarq DSL in Seagrove for a couple years now. Only went down once when lightning fried the modem. Mediacon does suck, but it is faster. There's a thread on here somewhere about speed testing.

 

[Matt J]

NDY has a point, if you need data transfer go with Mediacon.

 

[Alice 30A]

you can buy faster speeds for embarq, which makes it faster than mediacom and embarq is not down as much as mediacom. Does not go out during storms. I think embarq is a lot more reliable.

 

[sunspotbaby]

I have Mediacon and my internet has gone down maybe once or twice in a year and I'm on West Hewitt. Seems like I've heard a lot of complaints about Mediacon service on 30-A though. It kind of depends on your location. It's always worked fine for me.

 

[ShallowsNole]

I can't compare the two as Mediacom doesn't serve my neighborhood, but we've had Embarq for over a year now and it's only been down for any length of time twice. One time was fixed merely by hitting the reset button. The other time was fixed as soon as we called. We've had a couple of outages for a couple of hours or so as well. But since we had WildBlue before, and dialup before that, I'm pretty happy with Embarq.

 

[John R]

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6536_7-726601-4.html?tag=rb_content;rb_mtx

 

[Here4Good]

you can buy faster speeds for embarq, which makes it faster than mediacom and embarq is not down as much as mediacom. Does not go out during storms. I think embarq is a lot more reliable.

Alice, do you have one of the higher speed Embarq plans?

If so, could you please run the speed test and post the results from :

http://www.speedtest.net