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[schuck6566]

17 hours ago, SACBALLZani said:

Can't post my test since I'm at work, but I live in western North Carolina, Pisgah/Brevard area, and I only get 30mbps at my house. Not 300, not 3000, but 30. And less than 10, mostly less than 5, for up. DSL, which apparently wasn't even supposed to be run to my house as its 500 feet outside the service area but a rogue att tech apparently ran it a few years ago. Like when i first moved in and made an appointment, they canceled because they said they didn't serve my address. I had to tell them that the previous home owner had been using them, and they came back. Hasn't been a huge issue as I'm mostly just a gamer, don't need much bandwidth. I just have a fair amount of drive space and I make sure to keep most of my games updated and installed.

I feel your pain. The reason I switched to cable back around 2005-06 was because I was moving across town(same town,just a few miles away)and where I was before att offered an upgrade to 6mbps from 3 so I figured I'd get it at the new place. Well, at the new place they told me all I could get was 1(one)mbps which averaged 756kbps. They explained it was because I was further away from their servers. I called cox/suddenlink to see if they could install the day I was moving in, and they didn't have a modem @ the local store,but if I wanted to buy my own instead of renting theirs,they could do it "And,Oh,by the way,we are offering a $20 rebate to customers who supply their own modems,just bring the receipt into the office to apply for it". My local Office Depot had 1 on sale for $29.99 with a $20 rebate and I got $20 from the cable company. Made $10 and saved rental fees because they were out of stock, got 10mbps to start for my speed with 5x the data. lol, cost per month was actually cheaper when it got bundled.

[Lord Bernd]

[Snakecharmed]

I've basically been switching between first-year rates with Comcast targeting around $50-60/month for a few years now. My current plan is 400/10 for $55/month. Not bad, not great.

 

 

The unfortunate thing is that AT&T gave up on fiber in my area and Google and municipal fiber efforts also stalled several years ago not too far from where I live. So what does AT&T offer in my area? A pathetic 25 Mbps down for the same $55/month base and then there's taxes as well, whereas I pay exactly $55.00 to Comcast.

 

 

That effectively makes Comcast the only game in town, which is not ideal, but it's also not like living out in the sticks either. Gigabit down is available for $70/month and 2 Gbps for $120/month. The problem with them is obviously going to be the comically asynchronous upload speeds and the data cap.

[Avacado]

[The Pook]

11 minutes ago, Avacado said:

 

[kaliz]

[maddangerous]

Verizon FiOS 1G up/down

 

 

Edited November 3, 2023 by maddangerous

[Snakecharmed]

 

I was doing a lot of bitching in the latest purchase thread about unfavorable deals for even-year Comcast when I have to upgrade to a higher tier to maintain similar pricing to the odd years when my bill would theoretically be lower. New deals dropped in December including a more favorable gigabit download for $65/month instead of 1.2 Gbps for $75/month.

 

A new-to-me refurbished Arris S33 modem later and and off we go, but I'm still waiting for them to deploy the upgrade to the wildly asynchronous upload speed that some markets have already gotten. They're beginning to roll out DOCSIS 4.0 and symmetrical upload speeds in the not-too-distant future, and my area has yet to get a mid-split upgrade to increase upload speeds to 100 Mbps on this plan.