Houston stuck in stone age for broadband internet?

[bostoner]

Originally Posted by tstone

My DSL through AT&T is $25/mo and it suits me fine. Maybe look into that.

I'm not running a business. I'm also not doing any serious videogaming, not streaming HD porno movies nor doing BitTorrent downloading... But if I were doing any of that, I'd probably be complaining.

Suuuuure. Riiiiiiight.

[DJboutit]

We need Coax so bad

[ZeroTX]

I just got Comcast internet at my new (old) house and it seems pretty fast. I can allegedly get bursts up to 12MB, but I haven't tested that yet.

As some have said, there's not much you'd need more than that for... not much legitimate anyway. Even most corporate users with direct fiber to their office don't utilize that kind of bandwidth.

[mike171562]

For Broadband in Houston I use Houston-Broadband DSL their website is Houston Broadband Quality High Speed Internet Services for the Greater Houston Area

[Sea2LV2Hou]

Originally Posted by domoto

Ok. let me start off here, I lived in Japan for many years, but left 2 years ago. I was getting 50 mbps up/10 mbs down for $45.00 equiv. in yen. for ADSL through a phone jack. I got to San Diego, and got cable dsl which ran me 9 mbps down for $44.95. This was just mid-grade service. 12 mbps is $60.95. There is something seriously wrong in Houston, a huge city full of suckers whom seem not care bout internet speeds. WTF.

what in the heck do you do, to need that much speed? And you do mean 50mbps down and 10 up-- right?

[htxdrone]

Fios exists in certain parts of Houston as does U-Verse which is, purportedly, better than Fios.

Yes, you don't have much choice _any where_ in the U.S., but you can thank all of our great federal representatives who have for years given our money to these companies just so they can come bleed us dry and give us nothing in return.

[htxdrone]

Originally Posted by person

I believe I said web startups, the link did not list the companies, but I do already know that we have medical and energy related tech companies.

I wish we have cooler web2 or B2C web companies, stumbleupon, twitter, pandora, google, facebook, ebay, amazon kind of companies, like the young gold rush win big or crash and burn kind of culture. The entrepreneurial startups here seem to be by older folks, and not that much buzz and excitement due to its more serious nature of business

I'm glad we don't, there are actually only three "successful" companies in that list (the rest have yet to make a profit, while they sound cool, at least one of them doesn't even have any real model yet on how to make money) -- for those three you listed, there were thousands of burn-outs that sapped their local economies in the inevitable bust after the boom.

Houston has started many great companies, some of which you may or may not have heard of. Yes, we are known for our energy companies primarily, but did you know we're also at the heart of a lot of network security companies? Oh, I know, it doesn't sound pretty like twitter (ha, yeah, that's a great company to model after!) - and you don't get to read about them every day, but they are household names...

[randian]

Originally Posted by htxdrone

Fios exists in certain parts of Houston as does U-Verse which is, purportedly, better than Fios.

But you can't get both FIOS Internet and FIOS TV, because Verizon refuses to compete with Comcast. For much the same reason you can't get FIOS at all in Miami/Ft Lauderdale, but you can in Tampa (where Comcast doesn't do business). Not much point to get FIOS Internet if you still have to get your cable TV from Comcast.