Comment I love Comcast! (Score 1) 434
Seriously! I must be the luckiest guy on the internet because I don't have anything to complain about with Comcast. I've moved around a decent amount in the past few years in central NJ near the shore and have had the following experiences:
Comcast in Monmouth Beach and Long Branch:
I think this was back when the max was 6 or 8Mbps. Didn't block ports. Had a few issues with the lines running to my older apartment but once those were settled it was smooth sailing. Never really noticed "slowdowns" that the DSL people raised their noses about their non-shared connections.
Cablevision in Neptune and Asbury Park:
15/2 was the stock connection here I believe. Started using newsgoups and had no trouble maxing out the downstream at any time of the day.
Verizon FIOS in Asbury Park and Ocean, NJ:
Switched to FIOS solely for price reasons on a package deal. Base internet was supposed to be 15/5 but somehow I ended up getting a 25/25 connection. Not complaining. As with the previous Cablevision connection, had no problems saturating my downstream link downloading from the right servers.
Now I've moved to Aberdeen, MD and am back with Comcast due to the owners of my rental not wanting me to have FIOS installed. I ended up getting an internet-only package and now have a 50/10 connection for $50 a month. Yes...50Mbps. The kicker is, when I go to speedtest.net I get rated at 62/11.5. So now I'm downloading from newsgroups (using ssl at that) at just shy of 7MB/sec. I've never had issues with it going slower.
TL;DR:
I have a 50/10 Comcast connection that never slows down and speedtest.net says is actually 62/11 for $50 monthly, Netflix streams great.
Youtube, as usual sucks. If Comcast (and Verizon FIOS for that matter) are throttling anything, it's Youtube. That's the only thing I could even remotely say is slow.
Comcast in Monmouth Beach and Long Branch:
I think this was back when the max was 6 or 8Mbps. Didn't block ports. Had a few issues with the lines running to my older apartment but once those were settled it was smooth sailing. Never really noticed "slowdowns" that the DSL people raised their noses about their non-shared connections.
Cablevision in Neptune and Asbury Park:
15/2 was the stock connection here I believe. Started using newsgoups and had no trouble maxing out the downstream at any time of the day.
Verizon FIOS in Asbury Park and Ocean, NJ:
Switched to FIOS solely for price reasons on a package deal. Base internet was supposed to be 15/5 but somehow I ended up getting a 25/25 connection. Not complaining. As with the previous Cablevision connection, had no problems saturating my downstream link downloading from the right servers.
Now I've moved to Aberdeen, MD and am back with Comcast due to the owners of my rental not wanting me to have FIOS installed. I ended up getting an internet-only package and now have a 50/10 connection for $50 a month. Yes...50Mbps. The kicker is, when I go to speedtest.net I get rated at 62/11.5. So now I'm downloading from newsgroups (using ssl at that) at just shy of 7MB/sec. I've never had issues with it going slower.
TL;DR:
I have a 50/10 Comcast connection that never slows down and speedtest.net says is actually 62/11 for $50 monthly, Netflix streams great.
Youtube, as usual sucks. If Comcast (and Verizon FIOS for that matter) are throttling anything, it's Youtube. That's the only thing I could even remotely say is slow.
