That’s right ... it’s not really BROADBAND unless it has 25 megabits down! It may be an “Internet connection” if it’s less, but it’s not “broadband”.
I’m fortunate here to have 100 megabits down and 5 megabits up.
I’m paying $45 for 100 down 10 up. Nobody forced it on me, but I do still have my Hayes 1200 on the shelf in the den (as well as a copy of Windows 1.0 on diskette) to remind me of what American ingenuity and free enterprise are capable of creating.
These asshats are channeling Venezuela.
Cox Cable recently ‘doubled’ their speed. They advertise 50 Mbps for my level, but I get about 40 on my wireless laptop and 35 on my wired desktop.
I haven’t noticed any real difference from their previous 20 Mbps rate, except that Netflix videos load with only about a 3 second buffer. [My new ROKU 3 box helped video loading, too.]
They do so much maintenance on the internet service that it frequently disconnects and has inconsistent latency. Their email servers have been acting up since before Christmas.
They also are raising the rate again at the next billing. After all, they did increase the Mbps.