Broadband Services Approach Advertised Speeds

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The day after the one month grace period for canceling the contract, the speeds usually hover around this speed. around 6am i might get about 1-1.5 mbps briefly. Tech support goes to a laptop in india where a guy talks to you about clearing cookies for an hour. And this is the speed with max 5/5 connection bars.

Not to mention if you want to cancel a contract, it'll cost about 200 bucks plus an additional termination fee. It's no suprise to see them on the very bottom on netflix isp report cards.
 
"Let me post an image which has speeds faster than 99% of the US and then call it shitty."

Really bro? Do you pop your collar at the bars too?

TFTC. /thread.


Hi would you like some pie?

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Fuckin' Google... :eek:

Nice geek.com upload.

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The day after the one month grace period for canceling the contract, the speeds usually hover around this speed. around 6am i might get about 1-1.5 mbps briefly. Tech support goes to a laptop in india where a guy talks to you about clearing cookies for an hour. And this is the speed with max 5/5 connection bars.

Not to mention if you want to cancel a contract, it'll cost about 200 bucks plus an additional termination fee. It's no suprise to see them on the very bottom on netflix isp report cards.

Dang, sucks to suck!
 
35Mb / 35Mb

I get a little over 35Mb down, and a little under 35Mb up. Not enough to cry to Congress about.

But then again, I'm a Verizon cast away so who knows how long Frontier will allow me to get what I actually pay for before they start creeping prices up and start capping plans to cover the humongous debt incurred to buy the Verizon territories that Verizon didn't want to fight with regional Governments for.
 
Max Speed has little to nothing to do with actual service. If they slam the cap on you after downloading say 5gb.. and suddenly you cant even load a fucking web page without 10 tries and endless timeouts.. whats the fucking point?

Damn dude, that sucks. Some games off Steam are pushing 15GB. That's three months! :mad:

As for me, I am on a government paid connection at school. During the year, it sucks during prime time at night and I'll be lucky to get 10-20 KB/s on Steam. But, at 3am or so I can hit 3-5MB/s, 8.5 if I'm lucky. During the summer, when maybe 5-10% of the people tops are on the network, I have hit up to 11MB/s pulling down from Steam. :eek: Yeah, that's a capital B. :cool: Thanks taxpayers! :p
 



This is my result on my laptop over 802.11g wifi at full 54Mb/s. Service is 15Mb/s down and 2Mb/s up.
 
Comcast in my area is horrible. You could get at most 3Mb on a 12Mb connection. The tech said they know the area is overcrowded but haven't done anything about it. I switched to CenturyLink DSL and they set me up for 6Mb. Which is exactly what I got. I then had them bump me to 8Mb for no extra charge where I found the limits of my DSL line at about 6.4Mb. That is perfectly fine since I understand how the DSL architecture works. Now I can stream stuff without it buffering for 5 minutes. Stupid ComCrap.
 
On another note, I also have Verizon 4G LTE which is awesome. At my house I can get 18 to 24Mb. I use that if I want something uploaded or downloaded fast. I find it sad that Verizon can deliver over the air speeds that smash hard line speeds. (Yes, I understand the network isn't loaded up yet, but still)
 
On another note, I also have Verizon 4G LTE which is awesome. At my house I can get 18 to 24Mb. I use that if I want something uploaded or downloaded fast. I find it sad that Verizon can deliver over the air speeds that smash hard line speeds. (Yes, I understand the network isn't loaded up yet, but still)
What's your bandwidth cap at? And how much are you paying per month? I'm curious as I'm trying to do away with hughesnet satellite.
 
What's your bandwidth cap at? And how much are you paying per month? I'm curious as I'm trying to do away with hughesnet satellite.
Well LTE, if it's in your area, is $50 for 5GB/Month or $80 for 10GB/Month. $10 for every extra GB over that. The Verizon Novatel MiFi works great and I have it bridged to my Gb wired network. If you have 4G LTE in you area it is an option, but not a cheap one.
 
I'm suppose to have a 1Gbps line but too bad the old routers they're using only support 100Mbps.

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I get the speeds i pay for from Comcast but still doesn't change the fact that there is a 250GB data usage cap(It includes UPLOADS AND DOWNLOADS) that i have to contend with....
 
clear is giving me worse internet service over time, last year when I signed up it was $55 with the modem lease (2 year agreement) for up to 6mb/s. I was getting mainly 2.2mb/s and sometimes 3mb/s now.. after they changed their advertisement to "unlimited' and they yanked out that "up to 6mb/s" phrase.. I have been getting 0.5mb/s for the past 2 to 3 months. -________-
 
What you get and what you pay for are always two different things. The real problem is lack of competition across the markets. The speeds would be more consistent if there were more competition. Most areas only have one option for high speed internet.

This is the problem in the area I live and the cable company knows it has the strangle hold.
 
Zarathustra[H];1037582957 said:
From my personal experience I certainly believe that.

I can't help but think this has something to do with them over-provisioning bandwidth, thinking that FiOS would roll out quickly, only to find they had to fight the regulatory battle to get in, town by town, and now figure they have all this spare bandwidth, so why not raise customer satisfaction levels by bumping them a little.

They always over provision the download side if you have FIOS TV with them... the reason is that they figure in HD streams when they set your config file. ....they allow extra bandwidth so that if your running a few HD streams on your TV's, you will still get the full bandwidth that you pay for on the internet side.
I have a 35/35 connection and will get 43/33 all day long...people without a TV package will see more along the lines of 36/33 at best
 
Just recently upgraded my Time Warner Road Runner from standard (which Speedtest.net usually gave me a result of around 14 down, 0.35 up with ping of .50) to Wideband which is suppose to give me 50 down and 5 up.. and as far as I know with no data caps.

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