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Old 01-02-2015, 11:30 AM
 
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nuts2uiam and longnecker this is excellent information. Thank you so much.

We will definitely need good speed and we don't often need customer services as we run a server from our home and manage our own email and wireless. My husband is a techie and the company we work for pays for our internet connection.

Just can't wait to get there and get settled. :-)
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Old 01-02-2015, 05:00 PM
 
Location: Former LI'er Now Rehoboth Beach, DE
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nuts2uiam and longnecker this is excellent information. Thank you so much.

We will definitely need good speed and we don't often need customer services as we run a server from our home and manage our own email and wireless. My husband is a techie and the company we work for pays for our internet connection.

Just can't wait to get there and get settled. :-)
The customer service I am referring to is when there is a problem on your lines and they need to repair them. I finally got my problem resolved when I contacted the executive office. I kept getting dropped off the connection and then had buffering problems with a radio (never tried to stream a movie, thank God).
I had over one month of service people here in and out and they came up with all kinds of "theorys". It was only when I handed them all of the problems in conjunction with those of my neighbors did it get resolved.
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Old 01-02-2015, 10:41 PM
 
Location: Southeastern Pennsylvania
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We have a condo in Dewey Beach and since it's not our primary residence we opted for Verizon DSL instead of Comcast Internet. When we researched it, DSL was about half the price.

I've always thought that the DSL is nearly as fast as the Comcast Internet we have at home. But tonight, reading this thread, I did speedtest.net here at the beach. Much to my surprise, my download speed is 2.5 mbps. I think that's only about 1/10th of what we get at home with Comcast. And yet, I have so sense down here that anything is any slower!

I have streamed from Netflix here with no problems. (Not sure it was HD, though.)

Just wanted to share our experience. The numbers say one thing but it doesn't FEEL as bad as the numbers say -- and I'm online 6-10 hours a day.
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Old 01-03-2015, 06:44 AM
 
Location: Former LI'er Now Rehoboth Beach, DE
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We have a condo in Dewey Beach and since it's not our primary residence we opted for Verizon DSL instead of Comcast Internet. When we researched it, DSL was about half the price.

I've always thought that the DSL is nearly as fast as the Comcast Internet we have at home. But tonight, reading this thread, I did speedtest.net here at the beach. Much to my surprise, my download speed is 2.5 mbps. I think that's only about 1/10th of what we get at home with Comcast. And yet, I have so sense down here that anything is any slower!

I have streamed from Netflix here with no problems. (Not sure it was HD, though.)

Just wanted to share our experience. The numbers say one thing but it doesn't FEEL as bad as the numbers say -- and I'm online 6-10 hours a day.
I THINK, (that being the operant word) that a DSL line gets bogged down when there is high demand from other users. Wonder if you did this in the summer, if the result would be the same? Interesting finding regardless.
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Old 01-03-2015, 08:06 AM
 
Location: Long Neck,De
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I THINK, (that being the operant word) that a DSL line gets bogged down when there is high demand from other users. Wonder if you did this in the summer, if the result would be the same? Interesting finding regardless.
AS I have said I work seasonally in the resort area. During PEAK summer weekends Comcast internet gets bogged down.
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Old 01-03-2015, 08:53 AM
 
Location: Former LI'er Now Rehoboth Beach, DE
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AS I have said I work seasonally in the resort area. During PEAK summer weekends Comcast internet gets bogged down.
That was my experience on LI with Cablevision as my ISP. Comcast wise, I have not noticed that slow down myself BUT, I don't spend as much time in the summer on the computer so it is quite possible.
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Old 01-05-2015, 05:40 AM
 
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Cable gets bogged down during high demand, DSL does not.
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Old 03-18-2017, 06:04 PM
 
Location: The Conterminous United States
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Cable gets bogged down during high demand, DSL does not.
It's the opposite, actually.
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