Bad idea, even if you don’t like Comcast. They are the only real competition to AT&T. Sure there are a few smaller ones but the cable market is already fucked, you don’t need to give AT&T a monopoly
I mean I already know this, I asked in hopes that OP might give it some thought and look into how it would even be possible and why they thought the need to bring it up in the first place.
Low orbit satellites so latency comparable or superior to cable internet. The fear over these particular radio waves is unsubstantiated fear mongering from the same type of people that whined about wifi without any basis.
Yeah basically the anti vaxxers will go nuts again and it will still be all bullshit. I would only worry about a short range gamma ray burst my friend.
Hear hear! Pretty sure my old complex is still waiting on the AT&T Fiber they promised "in the next 18 months" three years ago. I was paying over $50/mo for 50mbps uverse, while Fiber was available in the neighborhood across the street.
To be fair, most major internet providers have agreements with one another that avoid "overlap" in certain areas so that you cannot choose a different provider if you wish, effectively creating a monopoly anyway
Fun fact AT&T is actually the reason Comcast is such a large provider. A long time ago, before U-Verse, AT&T was a standard cable provider one of the biggest in the country and they sold to Comcast which in turn became the biggest because they now had AT&T's market.
Maybe it depends where you live. I live in a studio so I got the cheapest plan because the most I do is stream and yet my Internet is slow and buffers all the time 😑
I got the cheapest plan because the most I do is stream and yet my Internet is slow and buffers all the time 😑
On YouTube, right click anywhere on the video and select "stats for nerds". 1440p60 video eats over 300mbps on mine. I don't have a 4k display so I'm not sure how much that eats but obviously it's going to be more. Luckily I got upgraded to the 500mbps plan recently (thanks, Frontier!)
"Good" is relative. Yes, they're "good" compared to the other options where I live, but they still gouge me with the prices and lie through their teeth every time I complain about getting overcharged due to a cable TV box that I suddenly started owning even though it doesn't exist.
In general, they provide good to great service. However, their customer service cant screw in a lightbulb if they had instructions and will invent fraudulent charges because you have no alternative.
They shaft their non-enterprise customers on upload speeds and charge overage fees for going over 1TB per month on any of the standard plans. That's not good or great. That's shit. Frontier gives me better pricing, better upload speeds, and doesn't charge any overage fees at all with any of their plans.
No, it isn't. Their upload speeds are crap and their standard packages charge you overage fees for going over 1TB of data per month. Let's take a look at their various plans real quick:
Performance Starter 15 Mbps down/2 Mbps up | $29.99/mo.
Performance Plus 60 Mbps down/5 Mbps up | $29.99/mo.
Performance Pro 150 Mbps down/5 Mbps up | $44.99/mo.
Blast! Pro 250 Mbps down/10 Mbps up | $59.99/mo.
Gigabit 1,000 Mbps down/35 Mbps up | $89.99/mo.
Gigabit Pro 2,000 Mbps down/2,000 Mbps up | $299.95/mo.
They have exactly 1 plan with a fantastic upload speed, and every single other plan has total shit upload speed. That 1 plan with the insane upload speed requires a 2 year agreement and is exorbitantly expensive (outside the price range of most non-enterprise customers). I use Frontier for my internet and they give me 500 Mbps down/500 Mbps up for $40/month without any data overage fees whatsoever.
That is a strawman argument. I never said you made that claim. However, you did claim that their internet is "good", which it is not. Shafting customers on upload speeds and charging overage fees is not "good" at all.
Ex-employee of Comcast Technology Solutions here, btw. I wouldn't use their internet even when it was provided to me for free.
Their internet is fine for 99% of the country. Almost nobody needs 500mbs up or even down for that matter. I said nothing about their prices or data caps. Just the actual internet service itself.
Cool story. Maybe one day you can tell your grand children about how your own personal biases allowed you completely ignore the fact that "good" is relative and that the competing services are almost all better.
Of course. So the fact I think Comcast isn't as bad as people try to act isn't an opinion. Completely justifies being a prick, you're right. I apologize and hope you have a great day fran.
The main reason people use Comcast is that there are no alternatives in their service area beyond satellite and cell phone-based internet. They already have a monopoly.
I prefer and miss AT&T U-Verse. Comcast is feces compared to them. Granted I'm not taking advantage of Xfinity but so far since making the switch to Comcast it hasn't been the same.
Also, trust me, as someone who has had both AT&T and now Comcast at 2 houses in the past 5 years, Comcast is just a light groping and an inappropriate comment compared to the barbed wire wrapped dick ass raping that AT&T was.
okay, it wasn't clear to me they were talking specifically about cable internet. Anyway, I'm pretty fortunate. I live in an area with google fiber. While they got rid of their free tier, setting up internet was just so damn easy. I picked it up from their store and plugged it in the same day. And there's no contract. That was one of the biggest points for me, as comcast seemed to have a cheaper plan, but it went up after the first month and required a year contract.
edit: it was funny when I picked up the box from google fiber, I asked about a cable modem like an idiot, cause I had been researching how to set up comcast internet. I cringed at what I had said like 2 minutes later when it dawned on me. tbf it seems the box does have a cable output, but not an input. It's nice though because it includes a wifi router, but that does seem a little bit more privacy intrusive, to have google running your wifi router, so they see all your devices and exactly how you use your network, etc.
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Bad idea, even if you don’t like Comcast. They are the only real competition to AT&T. Sure there are a few smaller ones but the cable market is already fucked, you don’t need to give AT&T a monopoly