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Sadly, in a lot of places (e.g. Brooklyn, NY), this is not an option. The ISPs don't compete.
by kellysutton 14y ago
Sadly, in a lot of places (e.g. Brooklyn, NY), this is not an option. The ISPs don't compete.
- PavlovsCat 14y agoThen they should be sued.. ?
- shmerl 14y agoI personally avoid cable ISPs precisely because of this kind of junk. Other option is DSL (Verizon), but it's unfortunately 3 Mbit/sec max in many cases. If you are lucky you get 7 or even 15, but it's not common (only if you are very close to the Verizon station). Some rare places have fiber optics, but it seems they stopped expanding it. In general the situation in US is horrible - I still don't understand why there is no competition. Are there any artificial barriers?
- starpilot 14y agoMy Verizon DSL is peaking at about 1 mbit/s: http://imgur.com/a/2yXOT http://imgur.com/a/2yXOT . Our plan should be providing 1.1-15. Given that per youtube.com/my_speed, most people on my ISP are getting much better speeds I'm wondering if it's due to my setup. I can't imagine what could be wrong though: it's a Linksys WRT54G running latest version of Tomato firmware, I'm on a MacBook Air.
- shmerl 14y agoVerizon has several DSL plans (one up to 1.5 Mb/s, and then 3 and 7 or 15). In some areas 7 and up are simply unavailable, but I didn't hear that 3 wasn't an option. Try contacting Verizon about it.