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I'm moving to Wallingford. My boyfriend will be commuting to around Bradley Int'l and I'll be commuting to Yale. Any idea what commute time will be for rush hour for us?
Unrelated question: Can anyone tell me what type of cable/internet packages are available in the area? we're looking for cable and internet but we don't need phone.
Your boyfriend is probably looking at a commute of 40 minutes to an hour each way. I-91 can get bogged down through Hartford. His evening commute (southbound) will be worse than his morning commute.
Depending on where you are in Wallingford, your commute will probably be between 20 and 30 minutes each way.
I must defer to someone else on cable and internet packages...
Comcast is the big provider of cable internet and TV in Wallingford. There is also DirectTV as well and SBC DSL. I would advise against the the SBC DSL.
Your boyfriend is probably looking at a commute of 40 minutes to an hour each way. I-91 can get bogged down through Hartford. His evening commute (southbound) will be worse than his morning commute.
Depending on where you are in Wallingford, your commute will probably be between 20 and 30 minutes each way.
I must defer to someone else on cable and internet packages...
Totally agreed. Your commute is one of the puzzles that I don't think can be solved. Going to Yale and Bradley from one location spells compromise.
I commuted to Wallingford from Manchester for a couple years and it wasn't bad at all...but as yankee.peddler said, his commute home is going to be a problem because I91 for a couple miles into Hartford gets clogged up...not a problem if you are going local, but when you have another 25 minutes past Hartford to go, it's going to be a b*tch.
Maybe you can look into Rocky Hill or the Westlake area of Middletown which will give you another 5-10 minutes of commute but take that away from him as well.
As njohnson said Comcast is the cable provider. I don't have experience with them sorry. But on the contrary I did have a business grade DSL from SBC with no complaints at all for 2 solid years. YMMV
Thanks. We realized that its going to be a much longer commute for him than for me, but his commute ends when he gets to his job, and mine requires probably 15 more minutes of getting from a parking garage to class. Added to the fact that I'm probably going to be going back and forth more than him, we decided that it made more sense for him to have a longer commute.
Comcast is the big provider of cable internet and TV in Wallingford. There is also DirectTV as well and SBC DSL. I would advise against the SBC DSL.
I second that. I have just two more months with SBC/Dish. I wish that I had gone with DirectTV originally. Dish has done nothing but lie for three months regarding the deletion of New York-based stations. This was my whole reason for dropping Cox Communications. In a nutshell, Dish lost a lawsuit. They claim that due to a change in FCC regulations, no satellite or cable company is allowed to carry out-of-area stations. Not true...
Charter cable in Willimantic has been carying Boston's ABC and CBS stations for 20+ years.
We're being held hostage here in the Cheshire-Southington-Meriden area. All of the surrounding cable companies carry the New York (and New Jersey) stations. Interest in Boston or other cities isn't big in New Haven County.
It's not a matter of distance either. Cox Communications didn't carry NESN until a small, but vocal group nagged them enough.
Last edited by Rich Lee; 03-15-2007 at 08:01 AM..
Reason: Clarification
Yeah my father is a huge RedSox fan and could never figure out why Cox never carried NESN. Another big gripe of mine was not carrying OLN, especially during the Tour De France. I know a lot of other people who received it as standard programming with their cable. I even complained to them but to no avail.
Comcast is a decent cable internet system and much better than SBC as DSL is routinely slower. They also have some issues setting up external SMTP's if you run a website and want to have your own POP3 addresses. I just advised a client on this and she switched from SBC to Comcast and is now getting twice the speed and her emails work great.
We live in Wallingford and have comcast for phone, cable, and internet (runs about $100 a month) Absolutely no problems with it.
Depending on what time he leaves for his commute, and where you live in Wallingford, it can be an easy commute to Bradley. I live right near the highway and can make it to Bradley (if there is no traffic) in 30 minutes.
Yale is an easy commute (15-20 minutes and you can get off the exit where traffic usually backs up)
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