Kascha Matova wrote:
Dilbert Dilweg wrote:
Why not go with Cable Internet? I guess not available in your area?
The only ones who aren't capped is Time Warner Cable with their RoadRunner service. RoadRunner is garbage. I have it now, after having just left AT&T less than a month ago because I moved and they were going to take 3 weeks to activate my DSL when they didn't even have to come to my house.
I'm paying $46/mo to TWC for supposedly up to 15Mbps bandwidth. To date, I have never Speedtested over 10, and I average around 4.5-5. Downloading Singularity viewer the other night, I was getting 43Kbps. Dialup speed.
Cable is only worth it when nobody is home. Anywhere in the area. It's shared bandwidth, and since most people are home using the internet at the same time their neighbors are surfing and watching cable TV, the bandwidth rate plummets.
The quality of cable depends on the quality of the infrastructure. Time Warner is notorious for oversaturating nodes in a lot of locations, but it does eventually improve its infrastructure for a location with more nodes.
For about 3 months I had a serious drop in speed and called to complain about it several times. I told them it seemed like they were oversaturating nodes and that I would most likely switch to a competitor that was planning to expand into my area if they didn't remedy the problem. I imagine they got similar complaints from others and eventually must have added more nodes to my area because the speed shot back up. I live in one of the largest cities in the US and currently get anywhere from 16 to 21Mbps with TWC.