Which internet provider do you use

Where I live, there is some kind of non-competition agreement between providers. No Comcast where I am at (thankfully) so I went with Cox. Used to be with Century Link, but they went to complete garbage after some merge last year.

I have Time Warner and the only complaint I really have is how my upload is capped at 1mbps. I'm not going to pay more just to get more upload, it just annoys me.

Although one good thing coming for me is that Google is currently running Fiber to Kansas City KS and Mo. So I think I should have the chance to get it when they do start running connections. So depending on the price I'll be hopping on that!

Anyone here experience throttling when streaming Netflix using Comcast internet? Reed hasting filed a complaint about that....

Quote from godfather927 : Depends how long i want to argue with them on the phone for or how many times i threaten to cancel. It usually goes up on and down depending on the current promotion they are offering at that time. Sometimes it goes up $10/mo and sometimes it goes down $5/mo. If forget to call ahead of time, the $40 extra per month "normal price" is a real shocker when that bill comes in.

lol, seems so shady. Is CS that bad for Comcast?

Quote from TheCoffeePrince : lol, seems so shady. Is CS that bad for Comcast?

Yeah, it can be, it all depends on who you get sometimes or how much authority they have to give you a decent deal.

Quote from TheCoffeePrince : lol, seems so shady. Is CS that bad for Comcast?

Dude it's a cable company. 'Customer service' is not even in their vocabulary.

Quote from Somesort : Where I live, there is some kind of non-competition agreement between providers. No Comcast where I am at (thankfully) so I went with Cox. Used to be with Century Link, but they went to complete garbage after some merge last year.

99% of the different cable markets have only 1 provider.

i'm staying in San Antonio for work right now and i have Time Warner Roadrunner and they are actually pretty reasonably priced.. $35 a month for "20 down and 1.5 up" but it does fluctuate.. atleast once a week i have to reboot the modem to get back up to my normal speeds.. and the DNS server sucks.. i had to switch to opendns.org.
i have had a few random internet outages that they say they keep blaming on the modem, but i'm on my 2nd modem and when it does drop the modem says its not even hooked up to the cable network..

even with all those problems they are still better than ATT uverse.. the company that took 9 months to finally disconnect my internet and stop billing me.. they even sent me to collections when they couldnt figure out how to shut off my internet

I must say Time Warner is decent for me...I have the Extreme (30 x 5) and it's truly 30 x 5 stable. The DNS servers are OK for me. However it's a b*tch to argue with them about pricing...I'm paying $70/ month right now (internet only, no phone or TV) and the 'promo' rate is $50.

I currently have Charter. I pay $45 for 40/4 connection. They have been pretty good the three years I have had service with them. My household downloads 300-400 GB per month with no threats from charter except for the occasional copyright letter.

Quote from BoboLuck : My household downloads 300-400 GB per month with no threats from charter except for the occasional copyright letter.

Stop using torrents, or at the minimum stop using public trackers

Quote from V0RT3X : Stop using torrents, or at the minimum stop using public trackers

Roommate got the letters. I'm a usenet kind of guy. It was pretty funny when he downloaded a single porn video from a torrent of many and ended up with 37 letters.

I have Verizon here. No Fios in my area yet, so just plain old DSL. I got it about 5 years ago at the promo price of $19.99 a month(for the slowest shitty speed they had at the time, 768kbps) and they recently jacked it up by $5 a month or so for the same crap speed. I should call them and try to negotiate for the next speed up for the same price for a year or so, but for what I use it for it's not even worth the time.

If I could, I'd just jack into an unlocked wifi signal and ditch them altogether.

Quote from godfather927 : No problems here either with Comcast's service, but it does get pretty irritating having to call every 6 months to haggle with them over my bill.

My one buddies' family has Comcast and their speed is nuts, but so is their bill. Unfortunately there's only Comcast in the area as far as cable companies go, so no competition means they don't have to be truly competitive. It's either them or Dish or Directv for TV and them or Verizon here for internet.

Forgot to add that I actually use Fair Point Communications. I pay for 15/2 but I actually get 30/5 for some reason. Flat $30/mo, no taxes or fees, but I did have to commit to 2 years to get that price.

Quote from V0RT3X : Stop using torrents, or at the minimum stop using public trackers

Forreal. I got a notice a like 5 years ago for dl'ing two torrents off Demonoid (of course it was from external links) and lost my internet in college. But that was okay because I just stole my roommates login and password and I was back online the next day . Of course I would get caught downloading a shitty Turok game and Meet the Spartans. Stopped using public trackers after that and have been using private since. But I lost my TorrentLeech account because I forgot to sign in for a period of time, which blows because that's a great tracker.

Quote from BoboLuck : Roommate got the letters. I'm a usenet kind of guy. It was pretty funny when he downloaded a single porn video from a torrent of many and ended up with 37 letters.

I never understood why people download porn torrents. Waste of space and you can pretty much find anything online. I only ever dl'ed one which we used to punk people on our campus's DC++ server. It's called swap.avi, we recommended it to anyone looking for a good movie to watch, and it put 2 girls 1 cup to shame.