1) New York City, NY, USA 2) 3 in my building: RCN, Verizon FiOS, and Spectrum 3-4) Verizon FiOS: 940Mbps down / 880 Mbps up for ~$94 | RCN: 1000Mbps down / 2

1) New York City, NY, USA 2) 3 in my building: RCN, Verizon FiOS, and Spectrum 3-4) Verizon FiOS: 940Mbps down / 880 Mbps up for ~$94 | RCN: 1000Mbps down / 20Mbps up for ~$65? | Spectrum: 940Mbps down / ?Mbps up for $65? (all prices including taxes, fees and modem/gateway rental) 5) RCN 250: 250Mbps down / 20Mbps up for $44 6) I use FiOS 100Mbps up / 100Mbps down plan for $54 (advertised as $39.99 but I pay $54 with modem rental and auto-pay from my checking account). The service is descent except it can slow down in the evenings when streaming video, which I suspect is due to packet shaping. I have found that using a VPN with a local server typically increases speed during these peak times and allows me to max out my speed. 7) Sadly no, but there is this: https://www.nycmesh.net/ https://www.nycmesh.net/ 8) I like how the fiber is run into my apartment and near my desk. I like how they offer a fast upload speed of 100Mbps for the cheapest tier. I don't like how I have to enable auto-pay from my checking account to get a $10/month discount - but I use a separate account for this purpose, different from the account I have my paycheck deposited into. Their phone support is descent and local to the NY/NJ area, which is nice. My price is locked in for a year, and after that, if they raise the rates, I am likely going to move to RCN. RCN is a cable service and claims they will be reconfiguring their network to allow for a faster upload speed in the future, greater than 20Mbps, though that should be adequate for my needs. Also, I am quite lucky that my building offers 3 options for Internet. The most common provider is Spectrum, followed by Verizon FiOS, and if you are lucky, RCN I am told.