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What type of Internet Connection do you use at Home?

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lethal289

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I've been using comcast broadband at home, and this week Verizon Fios has become available. Fios uses the fiber optic cable, and is supposedly real fast (15mb/s compared to ~7mb/s with broadband). Any body familiar with it care to comment? Experience any problems or issues?
Thanks
 
Qwest DSL is the best you can get here. I am looking into the local wireless guys. I hate Qwest!

Mel
 
I've tried to stretch the string between the two tin cans but still no improvement.
 
I have a local DSL line, it's just a weeee bit faster than dial-up :eek:mg The phone co. is currently upgrading all the lines to fiber optic, I hope it makes the connection faster.

It's my only option out here in the sticks except for sat internet.
 
I have ATT uverse which is basically the same thing as FIOS, just a different company. I already had ATT for wireless land line and internet. The upgrade for the internet was free. The change that we made was to drop the cable company, Comcast I think, and use them for TV viewing. I have HD service with some pay channels. It was all fine and dandy for the first few months, then we started losing signal. Which meant not only did my internet go down, TV as well. Had them out here troubleshooting the system, turns out there was a bad connection at the front of my house. The busted out a corner of my driveway and put up this little round tube thing at the corner of my property line. They repaired the cement. Been working fine ever since. What sold me on their "cable" was that they had NFL network. :pbj The one difference was that I needed a "box" for every TV now. Before I had one box in the living room for the pay channels and the other TVs only had basic channels. So now I only have 2 TVs, living room and the master bedroom. Speed is fine, if you really want to know the numbers I can do that speed check thing. fd
 
Not 100% fiber, but Time Warner upgraded our system to fiber a while back, except for the portion coming to the house. The fiber modem(?) is right in front of the house though. I saw a good speed increase, IIRC, nearly doubling on the speedtest sites, and an amazing jump in VPN speeds to the company network. In fact, I'm not sure I don't get faster access at home than at work now :wtf
 
Just canceled my AT&T DSL Yesterday and converting over to comcast broadband. They just upgraded their basic broadband speed to 15 MB/S. I have been very disappointed by DSL an looking forward to the switch.
 
Out where we are, there were very few choices when we moved there a couple of years ago -- no digital cable, no dsl. It was down to dial-up (not a chance), satellite (very pricey for the equipment and several month wait), or a land based wireless (similar to cellular but not cellular). We opted for the landbased wireless. Going from cable to this, I saw no change in speed. We just have rectangular "dish" on the roof, pointing towards the repeater tower.

-rob
 
Where I live I can get DSL or I can get Satellite or I can get teh crap card for my computer from my cell carrier. Oh, I can get the land based wireless. I engineered one in Brawley and kept it runing from 2000 to 2005. I like it if the ISP keeps their speed up. the company here wants a huge install fee. I told them I have installed hundreds of units, what if I did my own. They said they would still charge the fee. they want to drill all kinds of holes in my house when there are places to go in that are already there. They only need to put a CAT5 line in. there is plenty of room in the hole already there for the Direct TV line. sheesh what bung holes. I am not sure it would even be better than my DSL.

All of them suck, so I have DSL.

I'm going to call them in a little bit and see what other speeds they have.

Mel
 
15 Mb Fios. Fiber to the house and coax feeding the router. Very fast response and the connection gets used heavily.
I wired the house, put a switch in the attic and have 3 wireless AP's pluged in.
Had cable before the Fios became available and it went down often. Frustrating when trying to work at home.
I've never had an outage in the 3 years it's been hooked up.
 
"1497" said:
15 Mb Fios. Fiber to the house and coax feeding the router. Very fast response and the connection gets used heavily.
I wired the house, put a switch in the attic and have 3 wireless AP's pluged in.
Had cable before the Fios became available and it went down often. Frustrating when trying to work at home.
I've never had an outage in the 3 years it's been hooked up.
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Very cool, i bit the bullet and switched to fios this week. I can say that so far i am very happy with it. Funny thing is, when i called comcast to cancel, they said they could knock 30 bucks off a month if i stayed. If they would have said that a week earlier when we talked last, i probably never would have left.
 
Talking to Qwest right now. These bungholes give tons of discounts for new users, but if you have been with them for years as I have, they just stick it to you!

I wish I could get different phone service. there should not be a monopoly for any company, there should be compitition! I thought deregulation was supposed to do that.

Qwest, Direct TV and DSL in a bundle, they want my cell phone now too! :rp :rp :rp

Not going to give these bungholes anything else unless they can give me better service for the same or less money.

Gonna call the land based wireless guys again, and Vonage and Direct TV directly! Gotta do the research.

Mel
 
Aside from the money issue, I just finished with tech support. I told them that I doubted it was my end and he asked why? I told him I was running deep freeze on my server and there is no way that anything can change since it is shut off at least once a day and when it reboots it comes back exactly how it was when I installed it 7 years ago and that my service slows down in the evening even on that system.

He checked some things on his end and he said all is well right now as I had told him and that he couldn't check anything in the past right now. He asked if he could put me on hold. I said OK and when he came back he said he checked some other tools and found something, but would have to contact tier three techs. He put me back on hold and tier three re routed my path.

Now my connection seems pretty fast.

So, for the money thing they suck, this time the tech support is good, great even.

I am still going to do some more research.

Mel
 
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