Good afternoon, I was on a promo for Comcast (30 MB down, known as Blast), and called to get service downgraded since my promo ended and the price nearly doubled. The guy wanted to charge me a fee to downgrade (I have no contracts with them)- I pushed back but he wouldn't wave it so I plan on speaking to a manager later. I have been putting off shopping for Internet providers since I last tried Qwest DSL in 2008 (it was no where near the speed they advertised when I was living near downtown, so I stayed with Comcast). The audacity for Comcast to charge for downgrading service, combined with their already high prices has pumped some motivation into me to look at broadband providers again. Is anyone using Century Link or USI Wireless? I don't believe we have any other options in Minneapolis for broadband (Clear doesn't appear to be an option for my usage). Unfortunately I'm on the wrong side of 35W for USI fiber to be option. I don't do video streaming (aside from short news stories) but may pick this up again in the future at some point. I occasionally work from home over VPN, which makes me a little nervous with USI and the reviews I've read. At our house we mostly do a lot of intensive web browsing and publishing, ssh (inbound and outbound), and a small amount of RDP traffic outbound, light gaming (Steam), and occasional large downloads (mostly Linux iso's / packages, and Steam games). I do use CrashPlan in Linux for frequent backups, so anything capped low (like Clear 4G) could present a problem- no worry about longer upload backup times, it runs as a service in the background and I can throttle it. How has USI been recently? Is it worth even trying? I'm in south Minneapolis and the nearest node is two blocks away, which is another potential drawback. Does anyone have Century Link that could provide some feedback about it? Someone also mentioned Clear 4G recently. My concern with that (and the other providers) is capping bandwidth, which everyone does to some extent, but Clear seems really low (40 GB), which might be a problem with CrashPlan. Thanks in advance for any suggestions / feedback. -- Jeremy MountainJohnson Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com