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I previously had Comcast with 25 download and upload speed and I switched to Fios. I have been disappointed so far. I currently have 50/50 with Fios and don't see any improvement, in fact Comcast went to HD immediately whereas Fios initially buffers when streaming from the internet. I recently checked my speed as it seemed slow and my download speed was 11 with the 50/50 Fios. After trying different settings they sent me the latest and greatest router and now the HD stream quality seems to have dropped off but the speed is up where it should be. When I start my laptop, wifi signal is full strength and sometimes it will still not connect. I have to disconnect the full signal connection and reconnect to be able to connect to the internet.

Comcast used to have a 250 gig per month limit and I asked if that was still the same at the local Comcast company store and she couldn't answer, said I would have to call them to find out. We will be going to 3 HD tvs from 1 and I am concerned with additional HD streaming and viewing if we would have problems staying within the monthly limits set by Comcast. I think you can pay more for additional 50 gig chunks of monthly useage but it does not seem cost effective. I will say that in my experience Comcast has better internet than Fios.

I was wondering if anyone has Comcast Xfinity with heavy internet use and whether they have problems staying within the limit. The other thing was that with Comcast I had my own router (Netgear) and I don't know if that is what made it better or not. The Fios one has a coaxial cable connection that you have to connect the cable to the router for service and my Netgear doesn't have that. They say you can connect the Fios router to another router but I don't know how that would work.
 
Wide Open West cable 15mb/2mb down/up @ $20 a month. Nope, not worthy of heavy streaming use but I don't do that, and it's sufficient for general surfing and email.
 
Originally Posted By: LoneRanger
Wide Open West cable 15mb/2mb down/up @ $20 a month. Nope, not worthy of heavy streaming use but I don't do that, and it's sufficient for general surfing and email.



Wow, that is a super deal! We can only dream about value like that where I am at, only choices are
AT&T and Charter. Both expensive at any speed.
 
Yeah, but my biggest problem is wifi density in the neighborhood. 10 other wireless networks showing healthy signals. If I wasn't a cheap arse I'd go get an 802.11a router and live up in the 5Ghz band. 2.4Ghz is elbow to elbow around here.
 
If your streaming is making you hit a cap, cheap (sec. Once netflix figures out what it's allowed for bandwidth, it adjusts, and the viewer adjusts too. This also frees up bits for other devices without making netflix buffer etc.

I've got sometimes two streams running on ghetto TWC 1.5 MBits/sec "lite" service.
 
Originally Posted By: LoneRanger
Wide Open West cable 15mb/2mb down/up @ $20 a month. Nope, not worthy of heavy streaming use but I don't do that, and it's sufficient for general surfing and email.



Besides today when they have had almost a day long outage! Seriously though I've been really happy with WOW
 
You guys have data limits? According to the software on my router, Netgear R8000, I downloaded 1,559,039MB and uploaded 721,599MB with absolutely no throttling whatsoever.
 
Originally Posted By: bdcardinal
You guys have data limits? According to the software on my router, Netgear R8000, I downloaded 1,559,039MB and uploaded 721,599MB with absolutely no throttling whatsoever.

Was that in just one month? If so, that's a lot of data. That's 1,522 GB of downloads. How did you manage to do that?

The bandwidth caps that that Comcast has in place actually vary on the the plan that you have. They range from 300 GB for the slowest plans to 600 GB for some of the faster plans. This varies by region/state, too. Some areas are not enforced at all.

Still, if you do a lot of HD streaming, there is a chance you'll hit that cap. Lots of P2P file sharing will chew up your allowance quickly, too.
 
Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
Originally Posted By: bdcardinal
You guys have data limits? According to the software on my router, Netgear R8000, I downloaded 1,559,039MB and uploaded 721,599MB with absolutely no throttling whatsoever.

Was that in just one month? If so, that's a lot of data. That's 1,522 GB of downloads. How did you manage to do that?

The bandwidth caps that that Comcast has in place actually vary on the the plan that you have. They range from 300 GB for the slowest plans to 600 GB for some of the faster plans. This varies by region/state, too. Some areas are not enforced at all.

Still, if you do a lot of HD streaming, there is a chance you'll hit that cap. Lots of P2P file sharing will chew up your allowance quickly, too.




Back in my college days I would do 300GB a weekend. SO I wouldn't get called from my ISP they never called and doing 1TB a month is easy
 
Originally Posted By: 285south
Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
Originally Posted By: bdcardinal
You guys have data limits? According to the software on my router, Netgear R8000, I downloaded 1,559,039MB and uploaded 721,599MB with absolutely no throttling whatsoever.

Was that in just one month? If so, that's a lot of data. That's 1,522 GB of downloads. How did you manage to do that?

The bandwidth caps that that Comcast has in place actually vary on the the plan that you have. They range from 300 GB for the slowest plans to 600 GB for some of the faster plans. This varies by region/state, too. Some areas are not enforced at all.

Still, if you do a lot of HD streaming, there is a chance you'll hit that cap. Lots of P2P file sharing will chew up your allowance quickly, too.




Back in my college days I would do 300GB a weekend. SO I wouldn't get called from my ISP they never called and doing 1TB a month is easy


Ya my desktop is on 24/7 downloading and uploading torrents. I pulled off downloading and am trying to seed more to help my ratio. Everything goes through a VPN so no worries from the "man" anymore. I have friends that work at my ISP and anytime they get a copyright notice from someone they throw it away.
 
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