Internet Survey (modem, server, cable, Comcast)

[macroy]

VZ FiOS

~ $124 (TV and Internet)



Prefer it over Comcast. But those two are really the only games in town....

[rcsteiner]

1. Comcast.

2. I don't know. It's part of their XFinity Triple Play package.

3. Roughly 14.4 Mbps down, 4.5 Mbps up



4. I'm very happy with it.

[Nivalis]

1. Comcast
2. $25 as of now, it'll be going up after a year; looks like I have the same service as NJBest
3.
Downloading probably gives me an average of 350KB/s, highest has been over 1MB/s depending on where I'm downloading from.

4. It's great for what it does. It's not Europe or Korea by any stretch, but I'm quite content.

[Asheville Native]

Originally Posted by Nivalis

1. Comcast
2. $25 as of now, it'll be going up after a year; looks like I have the same service as NJBest
3.
Downloading probably gives me an average of 350KB/s, highest has been over 1MB/s depending on where I'm downloading from.

4. It's great for what it does. It's not Europe or Korea by any stretch, but I'm quite content.

The US invented the internet, we have a disproportionate share of the public addresses in existence, and yet our corporate owned politicians allow their greedy owners, corporate America, to keep a strangle hold on high speed access to the public internet.

[skel1977]

1. Who do you have as your ISP for your home internet connection?

Cox

2. How much do you pay per month?

I duno a lot

3. What speeds do you get?

Fast

4. How much of a value do you think you are getting?

ripped off

[NJBest]

Originally Posted by Asheville Native

The US invented the internet, we have a disproportionate share of the public addresses in existence, and yet our corporate owned politicians allow their greedy owners, corporate America, to keep a strangle hold on high speed access to the public internet.

That's not the problem. It's easy to provide fast internet to a country the size of Delaware. Our enormous size, and low density population makes it incredibly expensive to provide broadband internet.

[509]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Asheville Native
The US invented the internet, we have a disproportionate share of the public addresses in existence, and yet our corporate owned politicians allow their greedy owners, corporate America, to keep a strangle hold on high speed access to the public internet.

Originally Posted by NJBest

That's not the problem. It's easy to provide fast internet to a country the size of Delaware. Our enormous size, and low density population makes it incredibly expensive to provide broadband internet.

Yes, it is THE problem. Here in eastern Washington, the Publically Owned Utilities (PUD's) were required by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) to switch to fiber. So the PUD's then decided in addition to providing electricity, water, sewer services to their owners they would also provide fiber access to the public (who own the PUD's). These are more or less rural counties with some cities like Wenatchee.

Then Governor Locke (DEM) stopped this dead in the tracks to protect Verizon, Comcast, Charter and other providers. Finally after two years the PUD's were allowed to WHOLESALE, but not retail fiber service. So about ten years ago we finally got fiber. Current standard internet is 25 Mbps, for $5.00 more a month you get 100Mbps up and down. 1 Gbps service is available for just under $200. We also have the choice of five or six cable companies, 15 or so internet companies and 12 phone companies on the fiber network.

Over in rural Umatilla County in Oregon they have wireless across the ENTIRE county. News article here: USATODAY.com - Biggest Wi-Fi cloud is in rural Oregon. Check the date on the newspaper article....2005. Read the article in find out why they have it and YOU DON'T.

Now President Obama appointed Locke as Commerce Secretary with expansion of Internet services. Right....how far do you think this is going to go??

The problem is NOT technology or the size of the country. The problem is that we have the "best government money can buy".

Oh by the way, Delaware is 2,000 square miles. The PUD's in eastern Washington cover a land area of 12,687 square miles. Umatilla county in Oregon is 3,231 square miles.......

WHY IS DELAWARE a STATE!!!

[MikeJaquish]

Originally Posted by 509

Quote:
...WHY IS DELAWARE a STATE!!!

'Cuz they got there first. No one else had to approve them.

[Grandpa Pipes]

Mediacom cable.......not so great at $45 a month.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1624443300.png

[Willsson]

Time Warner - Internet
$30 month
They say it's 10 meg down, 1.5 up... or something like that, speeds test vary
I tried to downgrade to 3 meg so they offered the 10 for $30

The tale here is - I think - by letting me have the 10 meg, they can leave the account showing cable also. Thus their subscriber numbers are enhanced. I can hook the cable directly to my TV and get some cable stations... but have switched to DirecTV after cancelling the cable a few months ago.