I had DSL for my High Speed Internet for several years. About a month ago I started having problems where it would simply cut out for an hour or so at a time, often in the evenings.

So I ended up connecting to Charter High Speed. At first I had major issues - they spent several visits, but supposedly fixed it (something on the pole they said). I still, however find that several times a day my Internet slows to a crawl.

Then last week my phone line went. Verizon came out - again said it was a pole issue (I am thinking maybe it got struck?). I still have DSL (chickened out in cancelling it just yet) and tried plugging back in. So far so good but has only been a day. I am waiting to see if it stays connected, and if so maybe dump cable internet.

Has anyone else experienced problems where the supposedly twice as fast cable turns out to be slower than DSL?