I have Cable at home, DSL at work. They both work good, although Cable is a little faster and will handle streaming content better. I would say I probably have had more problems with lost connections at home, but that is not to say it has been frequent. Uptime has been very strong at both locations.

Since your current solution is clearly not much of a solution at all I would give DSL a shot. See if you can get a month to month deal rather than a 6 or 12 month contract. Then if they suck worse than Charter (which sounds hard to do at the moment) you can drop them.

Good luck!

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