On Friday 11 September 2009, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote:
> Here in Manatee County, my high-speed Internet connection choices are
> basically Verizon or Brighthouse. Brighthouse is no winner, but seems to
> be better than Verizon, at least for me.
>
> Sarasota is Comcast country. Give an choice between Verizon and Comcast,
> I don't know what I'd do. Move?
>
> - Robin
We all have seen the Comcast & FCC war up country which certainly does not put
them in a favorable light. I have a client in the Miami area who filled up
his bandwidth on his T1. I suggested he try to try a cable connection, which
turns out to be by Comcast.
To ensure he does not run out of bandwidth I maxed it out, and notice that
after about 60 seconds the uplink drops from 2.2Mb to about 1Mb. Which is
usually enough time for the speedtests to complete.
I repeated the test several times maxing out the connection in different ways
to see if it made a difference, which it did not.
Actually a Comcast tech tried to blame their firewall. But to everyones
surprise it made no difference when she disconnected it... :)
I would probably decide based on reliability if everything is the same. I love
the idea of a dedicated fiber and plan to test it. Unfortunately getting a
static IP can get very expensive with fiber from Verizon. One colleague is
quoted something like $800 for it, while another swore he paid much less.
--Steve Szmidt
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