New Apartment Needs

[Oneshot]

So here's the skinny:

I'm moving into a new apartment, and I need some form of internet as well as television.

My old apartment had Comcast Dig. Cable for TV and shitty ass cable internet.

Why shitty? Well, the internet was fast... except when it wasn't. During peak hours, there was 0 speed, and I would drop link ALL the time. Restarting your modem TEN times a day? Not my idea of good.

Not only that, Comcast wouldn't fix the problem.

So the moral of the story is: No Comcast internet for me, please.

So I do need some tips on how to start shopping for new internet and TV.

So far, here's what I've got:

AT&T has some pretty solid DSL (I gather from reviews), but I have to get a phone line? Who the heck has a phone line in an apartment these days?

After AT&T, I'm really not seeing many options for internet...

As for TV, I'd love Big Ten Network, but it seems that only DirecTV and Dish Network have it? Lame.

By the way, I'm on the west coast, in the bay area.

Any help is appreciated - there's so much information to sort through online to make a good decision, I really don't know where to start.

 

[IronBuckI]

I have AT&T DSL and I like it. Yes you have to have a phone line for DSL, but you can get the bare minimum (Limited number of outgoing calls, unlimited number of incoming calls) fairly inexpensively.

I was going to tell you that Insight has the Big Ten Network and cable internet until you mentioned that you live on the west coast. Hopefully the apartment complex will let you put up a dish. I'll probably be getting either Dish Network or Direct TV when football season approaches.

 

[Redhawk]

Do you have access to AT&T U-verse? That would offer both TV and internet, including the Big Ten Network. A lot of apartment buildings don't have access yet, though.

https://uverse1.att.com/un/launchAMSSNotAuthenticated.do?target_action=serviceabilityCheck