I hate cable service providers.

[fnkngrv]

My options are Fairpoint for 8mb DSL/digital phone for 30 bucks a month. Cable is Time Warner. Time Warner also has internet and digital phone. I went with TW since I was able to con them down into 117 a month which includes taxes for 10-15mb internet (they do "turbo boost" to the 15 when there is low traffic), digital phone, and 3 cable boxes (2 HD DVR and 1 regular). They were supposed to have a project completed by the end of August which would have taken the HD channel offerings from the 20 or so up to around 50 however they suck and didn't get the fiber run completed or something. I actually hate TW. I have traded in 2 of my HD DVRs for various malfunctions and my modem once. USA HD comes in for crap always freezing every so often and TNT HD does the same several times a week. I know more than their tech support about networks and IP Telephony so that makes it more difficult because I know how to fix the problems when they occur; they just sit on the other end of the line dumbfounded. I actually had an engineer once ask me, "are you some kind of Cisco Expert or something?" I am, but that is besides the point. The oddest thing is that my Vudu and MLB.TV worked SO MUCH BETTER on DSL when I had that then cable internet.