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ISPs in your area and how good/crap they are
AKA "rant about your crappy ISP here".
Here in Carmel, Indiana, we have:
AT&T - Slow as hell DSL, even if you are next to the central office. I was barely 0.5mi from the central office and I only got 400kbps-1mbps download on a 3mbps plan! However, their cap is pretty decent (150GB DSL, 250GB U-verse, overage $10 per 50GB).
Bright House Networks - Basically, Time Warner Cable with a different name painted over it. I have them, it's usually pretty fast but has the occasional burps of slow speed. Their support is OK, if you get the Bright House office it's really great, if you get the "Road Runner national helpdesk" it's absolute crap.
Local ISPs (On-Ramp Indiana, etc.) - Re-sellers of AT&T with a huge markup.
How about ISPs in your area?
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L.A, Time warner cable: the worst.
VirginMedia - 10Mbps Plan, They double/triple it(I just was able to achieve 38Mbps). Apart from the superhub issues, they are pretty amazing.
Also in Indiana, posting from Cinergy's Metronet.
It's okay. Internet was out earlier and dude came and looked at the box outside (Fiber) and fixed it within 30-40minutes.
It's usually faster, but streaming music via YouTube on the 360 right now.
On Virgin Media (UK), got free upgrade from 10mb to 30mb even though I don't really need it. Always get more though on average 31mb/s so very happy
Upload speed is crap compared to others but I've grown with it now
Write up something for WebHostingFail and we will post it. It's not exactly web hosting but something raging about ISP's would be pretty nice.
@StormVZ I have been with them since 2006 when they gave 2mbit download speed haha. How long have you been with them?
We've been with them since the NTL days. 256kbit was awesome.
Ontario. Canada has Third World internet service.
Bell and Rogers are both horrible. Bad speed:dollar ratio, and capped to hell. The only way to get decent uncapped service is to use a small company like TekSavvy or Distributel who are reselling the big boys, usually at a competitive price, but at the expense of sacrificing diversity of plans, or upstream speed. If the government would actually allow competition...
EDIT: Actually, a funny story. I'm from the US. When I first moved here, the concept of capped internet was utterly foreign to me, so I used the internet like I was used to. Thankfully Rogers capped overages back then at 50 bucks (it's 100 now-- and they lowered the caps to fuck Netflix subscribers), or we would have had a 500 dollar internet bill.
Shaw (Canada) 50mbps (1TB cap/mo) $40/mo
100% stable. Great ISP.
Yes @ElliotJ It was NTL in 2006.
I have Comcast (South Florida), a bit over $100/mo with taxes for phone, tv, and internet. I get 1.8MB/s down and no real problems. There's a 250gb cap that's currently suspended and has been for months, I've done 333gb so far this month, and 906gb in July and they haven't said a word :P.
Depends on where I am:
Back in my own country, it's $50 for 1mbit/s, pretty much. Lol SEA, meh.
Here, $90, Gigabit Fiber from NTT.
For that price and speed, I'd just use public WiFi. The speeds at the Ft. Lauderale airport on their free WiFi was insanely fast, much more so than what I get at home.
But if it's reliable and they don't enforce those caps, sounds good.
Charter Communications here. Signed up for a 30mbps plan but getting anywhere from 40 - 80 mbps.
I have Bright House and they are absolutely terrible! When I am downloading a file and as soon as I hit my max down speed, my router provided by them reboots. Get's very annoying! However, sometimes it can be quite reliable. :)
Mine is reasonably good, although do I need it all this? Probably not.
Not sure how attachments work but speed test says 105mb down and 4.97 up
@stormvz My friend has Virgin Media and he gets 100Mbps/Down and 20mbps/up. Virgin Media has CRAZY speeds in the UK!
Well we actually have a lot of providers.
DSL - KPN etc. (used them since dial-up, then ADSL, then left to cable) Cable - UPC (120Mbit down, 10Mbit up, leaving them for Fiber next year) Fiber - Concepts ICT (100/100 or 500/500)
20mb up? nah.....
Not at all, depends entirely where you live. The UK is terribly inter-connected.
I just want to have Google Fiber...
I heard that AT&T botched UVerse capping, so they don't even track how much internets you use.
:D
I'm waiting till a Swede drops by in this thread with a speedtest screenshot.
@Dionysus no need for Swedes when you have Dutchmen.
Why is that? It's $100/mo for internet, tv, and phone. Not the best deal, but definitely not bad for what I get. The only alternative is some pretty bad AT&T DSL.
Cobridge. It's been down for about a year. They still bill us. I pay, hoping one day it'll be what it used to, because 3G is useless here and there is no alternative other than moving. In the process of doing just that. I'm moving because of Internet. Property value should tank here from this. Fifteen minutes from a decent town and satellite is actually worth considering.
Used to be Charter. They gave me 30mbit with almost no downtime. Then they sold to cobridge who claims to have sold to fidelity...which I think is actually just still them and they sort of "bought" themselves.
Sounds similar to what happened here.
We were TWC from 1992 until 2003 when Bright House "bought" the market (which was really just Advance/Newhouse, owners of BHN, buying part of the market here in Carmel).
Where in Indiana? I've been in Carmel my whole life. Let the rich people jokes begin. :P
Born / raised in southern Indiana. Any further south and you're in Kentucky. (right on the Ohio river). Though I did spend a few years living in Bloomington. Also, about to move out of state in the next couple days so I'll be leaving the Hoosier state.
Carmel is a nice area, it's been forever since I've been up that way though. I usually only go to Indy for the airport or the occasional random night of fun in the city.
@elliotj @jack We've been with them since the NYNEX / cable and wireless days...