A few years ago when broadband first came out, SBC or Pacific Bell (I
think SBC) had four or five really funny commercials on the air.  One
of them had someone screaming for "more bandwidth!", while another had
a suburban town in a fued over hogging bandwidth (back when DSL was
faster and cable was shared).  Then there was one with an orb in it; I
forget why, but it was hilarious.

Does anyone else remember these?  I'm sure they've gotta be hiding
somewhere on the Internet.  Where can I download them?

Thanks!
-brent

Hi,

Very funny ads!  

I remember them well.  They were for Pacific Bell DSL.   

I've located four of them on the web:

Pacific Bell DSL - Cops
http://erik.tjernlund.net/slask/reklam/pacific-bell-dsl-laurel-lane-cops.mov
Pacific Bell DSL - Mailman
http://erik.tjernlund.net/slask/reklam/pacific-bell-dsl-laurel-lane-mailman.mov
Pacific Bell DSL - Neighborhood
http://erik.tjernlund.net/slask/reklam/pacific-bell-dsl-laurel-lane-neighborhood.mov
Pacific Bell DSL - Realtor
http://erik.tjernlund.net/slask/reklam/pacific-bell-dsl-laurel-lane-realtor.mov
All from this download directory:
http://erik.tjernlund.net/slask/reklam/

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search strategy:
"pacific bell dsl" mov

Thanks.

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Request for Answer Clarification by brentg4-ga on 17 Mar 2005 04:33 PST

Haha, those are funny :-P  I didn't realize they had four versions of
the same ad; I only remembered seeing one of them on TV.

I found a posting on Google Groups from another guy looking for the
"more bandwidth" one:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.arts.tv/browse_thread/thread/881cbfd7b5fc81d1/7c845a80731e9e93?q=%22more+bandwidth%22+sbc+commercial#7c845a80731e9e93
Were you able to find this one or the orb one?

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Request for Answer Clarification by brentg4-ga on 17 Mar 2005 05:03 PST

I think the commercials I'm talking about might have been on different
campaigns.  I remember most of them being for "SBC Global" instead of
just Pacific Bell... they weren't even really about DSL.

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Request for Answer Clarification by brentg4-ga on 17 Mar 2005 05:16 PST

They actually might have been small-business oriented instead of
consumer-oriented, not sure...

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 17 Mar 2005 12:45 PST

The four spots mentioned above were the only ones that I was able to find.

Adcritic.com also has some SBC ads (you have to be a member to view them):
http://hot.adcritic.com/search/?q=sbc

I wish the other ads could be found as well (they're not on the
adcritic website either), but thanks for finding the DSL ones!