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Surprisingly, in Myrtle Beach, SC we have multiple high speed providers choices: HTC (as in htcinc.net, a local telco cooperative offering gigabit fiber), or Sp
by LogicX 9y ago
Surprisingly, in Myrtle Beach, SC we have multiple high speed providers choices: HTC (as in htcinc.net, a local telco cooperative offering gigabit fiber), or Spectrum, who just minutes ago I heard for the first time that their new default tier in our area is 100mbps. Not sure if they go much hiher though, because a few years ago TWC was going to offer 300mbps cable service, and then the Spectrum merger cancelled that expansion.
Either way, I'm happy with my high speed fiber service. And I likely have competition to thank.
- juliangoldsmith 9y ago>a few years ago TWC was going to offer 300mbps cable service, and then the Spectrum merger cancelled that expansion. Are you sure they don't offer that? I live in Charlotte, and that's what I have.
- scottwernervt 9y agoThey are also bringing gigabit by end of 2018: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/charter-promises-gigabit-internet-to-virtually-all-customers-this-year/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/chart...
- ehPReth 9y agoNot sure I’d call 940/35Mbps gigabit (better providers use that to refer to 1/1Gbps — Charter’s marketing wank doesn’t sit too well :/)
- FireBeyond 9y agoComcast is at 1gbps/35mbps. What's the overhead of ACKs? It feels to me that you probably couldn't saturate the connection without getting buffer bloated by ACK traffic, at which point can it really be called 'gigabit' if it's not theoretically attainable?
- juliangoldsmith 9y agoACKs are TCP, not IP. They only claim 1gbps for IP traffic, not TCP.
- ktsmith 9y ago300 down should be the new Ultra tier everywhere Spectrum has upgraded the base speed to 100.
- LogicX 9y agoJust double-checked, apparently 120mbps down (no mention of up speed) is the fastest available.
- s73v3r_ 9y agoBut you have to realize you’re in the minority in this country.