whats best embarq dsl or mediacom highspeed?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

we live in west santa rosa beach & have mediacom. just last week i canceled my cable service with mediacom & was informed that my internet was going to cost $60.99 per month. i really wanted something less expensive & called embarq. they informed me that they do not have anything remotely as fast in our area as what we have with mediacom. she went on to say they didn't have anything as fast as what we get anywhere in this area. so it looks like we are stuck with expensive internet because we depend on it far too much for our businesses. as far as problems, we have not had too many problems with the service. i just wish cox served our area; i used to pay only $24.99 per month with them!

I am now on month 3 or 4 waiting for a response to my email to Embarq to see if I could bundle high speed w/ my phone service. :roll:

For some reason, my desire to use their service is diminishing!

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.

So you have a generator that powers the modem?

I am now on month 3 or 4 waiting for a response to my email to Embarq to see if I could bundle high speed w/ my phone service. :roll:

For some reason, my desire to use their service is diminishing!

Have you tried calling them or checking your spam folder for a response?

Uh, maybe Alice doesn't lose power during storms, either, swgb.

Have you tried calling them or checking your spam folder for a response?

No, it's not in spam and this is more fun - want to see just how long it takes (current bet is forever).

mediacom, off don bishop rd. right off the bay. no problems here, maybe one short outage in the 10 months i've had it. i'm not happy with the quality of their cable service though.