Your fastest Broadband Internet access at home: DSL, cable, satellite, ....?

It's about your desktop or laptop personal computers connceted to the Broadband Internet at home.

If you have two different ways of the Broadband Internet access, say DSL and cable,
choose the faster one; ... and so on.

Wireless Broadband (stationary)



Mobile Broadband

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Fiber Optic Cable... Verizon Fios. Fantastic service, I think we were one of the first places in the US to get it, been on it since they rolled it out several years ago and have never had one minute of downtime or service slower than what I pay for.

 

Cable for me via Comcast. I really can't complain - the service has been fairly reliable and the speeds are fast.

 

Why would anyone pay for multiple types of Internet service? Just curious.

 

I have DSL. About 5 Mbps down, under 1 Mbps up. It can't keep up with high def video streaming. No FIOS or fiber where I live even though I'm in a city and other parts of the city have it.

My other alternative is Comcast/Xfinity and I refuse to do that even though my internet speed would be much faster and could handle streaming high def video. I don't watch the boob tube so I'm not missing anything by not having cable for TV. I don't like Comcast as an ISP or as a company. I'll take DSL just to avoid using them.

My previous home had fiber. I could get over 40 Mbps up and 40 Mbps down at times at speedtest.net.

 

ATT DSL. The best they can provide at my house is 4Mbps down. Not sure about upload speed. With three teenagers in the house, there is heavy usage at almost all waking hours.

The local cable provider, promises 20Mbps down for like...$40-50/month. Can they really deliver that kind of performance with cable? It's not fiber optic, after all.

 

Fiber optic cable is the one I have at the moment. Works really great and havent been any problems whatsoever.100Mbps download and 10Mpbs upload.

 

DSL and it is crap. Thinking of changing my ISP provider.

 

I don't have 'fast' anything. The best we've got in this gawdforsaken corner of the area is a wireless broadband so slow it rivals dial-up. I peruse SHF with a book in my lap to kill time between pages.

 

8 mbit ADSL. No word from BT on when my comparitively rural exchange will get 24mbit ADSL2+ or 100mbit Infinity Fibre. I pay £20 per month for 30GB on peak usage and completely unlimited bandwidth off-peak.

 

http://www.speedtest.net/

 

All of you who live in non-rural areas have no idea how good you've got it!



And I pay $50/month for 3Gig of bandwidth at those speeds!

 

Cable and wireless. I use both.

 

12 Mbps U-verse here. Just upgraded from 768Kbps DSL.

 

FiOS

One of the few things I'll miss when I move from NYC is FiOS.

I went to visit friends in Metamora, MI and couldn't believe just how slow their internet service was - it was like pulling teeth for a website to come up.

 

DSL 6.0 Mbps is fine for my needs, but I may upgrade when U-verse becomes available in our area.

 

I was recently reached by the "fiber to the cabinet" DSL service offered by British Telecom here in the UK and now I have ~36 Mb/sec downlink and ~10 Mb/sec uplink. I used to have ~3 Mb/sec downlink before so you can see why I am a much happier camper now!

The faster uplink allows me to run a file server accessible from the internet so if any of you guys mentions a particular track and I feel the urge to listen to it I can copy the FLAC file to my phone in a matter of seconds!

 

I've only ever had cable and DSL and I can say that cable is definitely faster, but I can't offer any quantitative measurements.

 

Comcast provides the fastest internet service in my area. I've had DSL for the last three months, and it is slow compared to Comcast.

 

Well, I would have said cable but 30 meg download speed does not do me any good if it drops to 5 at night. Which was the case with cable. Went back to Uverse and have 24 meg 24 hours a day.

 

Time Warner Cable

 

Mine's been pretty reliable (cable):

 

Cable TV