I am currently dealing with a terrible DSL connection. AT&T is coming here tomorrow to figure out the problem. My money is on the walnut tree in the neighbor's yard that is pressing the line down! However, if it turns out that is not the problem then I will probably be switching to another internet provider. So I am wanting to find out what other people like or hate about different high-speed internet services. Phone company DSL, Cable Internet, satellite, or some other form of internet?

Opinions and experiences will vary according to which company you are dealing with and where you're located and probably other things I can't think of right now. Where I used to live I had both dsl and cable (at various times). I found myself having no problems with dsl (Verizon) whereas every time there was a storm, I would lose my cable (Adelphia) and internet in one fell swoop.

I have only used DSL, so I have nothing to compare it to. The service has been really great so far and since I recently upgraded from dial up, I am basically flying around the net.

Most times experiences will vary based on how far from a station you are. I've only used DSL through the apartment wall from a neighbor on the other side of a split duplex but it wa pretty decent even considereing how we used it. I have cable now and I love it. After we got it put in finally at least. I'd rather have DSL based on cost, but we can't get it out here.

I have had both services, and in different areas! My first high speed internet was DSL, and I had it in a major city, and it was awful. Never worked right, possibly because it was an older building. I switched to cable and it was great, until I moved out in the country where we had frequent enough outages to be annoying, so I switched back to DSL (because phone lines were buried!), and it worked great.

I started out with cable and loved it. Then my wife insisted we get satellite TV so out with the cable and in with DSL. DSL has given me more problems than cable ever did. Things just ran smoother with cable for me.

Thanks for the opinions. The AT&T maintenance guy came by today and cut off the branch on that tree, which pulled down the cable line and he didn't seem to care cause it wasn't "his" line. We don't have cable, yet, but I don't know about the neighbors. I'm sure they will have a fit if they do. They will probably have a fit anyway because the line is laying on top of their jeep! So he thought that the branch was the problem and also we have 2 phone lines running from the pole to the house because we have 2 phone numbers. The main line and dsl were running on the "old" line, which he said is a "really old" wire and that may have been part of the problem too, so he switched them to the new wire. Anyway, we are still having problems with it, so I think we are going to be switching to cable next month.