Comments: is you service fast or slow?
I’ll take slow speed over no speed. Ours won’t connect half the time and the other half is spotting with flashes of disconnections.
Slow, CenturyLink slow. (central Wisc.)
My cable internet used to get sluggish between 4 and 6 p.m.
That was when school let out and business days ended.
Now, the cable co has upped the speed a couple of times in the last 18 months — from 12 Mbps to 50 Mbps.
They are preparing for the 4k television and streaming. They also upped the upload and download of data from 250 Gb per month to 350 Gb per month.
They have also upped the internet portion of my monthly bill by about $10 in the last 18 months.
Time Warner Metro Milwaukee. I pay for 30 mbps DL, reliably 32 + UL pay for 5 mbps usually 5.5. I pay $115.00/month for Internet including router, Cable TV including 2nd set top box and Home phone + taxes and fees
A lot of people have gotten rid of Home phone but my wife and sister live half a country apart and cell phone voice quality does not cut it.
I get “You are not connected to the internet” a couple times a day. TWC, Summit County, Ohio. Most times I can unplug the modem for a few minutes, then reboot it. But that doesn’t always work. And I have bundled service, so if the modem goes offline, I lose the phone too,,and sometimes cable tv.
Yep, CenturyLink. If it was going any faster where I live it would be going backwards. Average download speed is around .7mb/sec. Ugh.Forget any on-line movie viewing or Youtube. Constant buffering every two or three seconds.
We were a club of "mighty" Commodore 64 Users working out the bugs of the Modem world back then.
No matter how many times I get a faster connection, it's always too slow after a while. 8-)
Just checked. I’m signed up for 20 mbps. Got 19.8 down, 4+ up.
Google is laying a fiber backbone a few miles from my house in Morrisville, NC. Supposed to be 100x faster. HUH?
I find my speed satisfactory, and Google is....Google, so we’ll see.
For those where Centurylink does not provide super slow DSL: Any form of satellite dish connection.
Running on wireless Time-Warner here in NW OH. Speedtest says 3.2 mbps down, 0.85 mbps up, windows says 54.0 mbps, so who knows. Vids and radio play lots better now than on the old 14.4/33.6/56.6 kbps dialups of 20 years back.
We are supposed to have unlimited 4G with ATT but after we used so much each month it slows down to dial up. When you call and complain they pretend they have no clue whats wrong.
Mine’s so slow I’m still seeing new posts from A+Bert and Willie Green.
It used to be really slow, but they upgraded from mules to horse, to haul the bytes up the mountain.
Now, it's great...except when it thunders in Venezuela.
Or sometimes when there is a bad snow storm in the Swiss Alps.
Logging on the internet using IE and Windows 7 is slower than pseudo FR patriots donating to keep FR up and running.
My new Acer Chromebook 15 logs on in about 3 seconds* or less to my Comcast home WiFi internet. The Chromebook/Chrome Browser stays logged in versus continual IE bs of dropping the same connection via direct.
*When I lift/open the cover on my Acer Chromebook, it is logged in to Comcast. So it may be even faster.
18 mbps down, 16 mbps up and good enough every night for Netflix.
Verizon Fios basic. Do I need to know more?
verizon here in philly (no fiber yet) is about .5 mips. I traded up to comcast and hated doing it but for the same price 32 mips