[GRLUG] GR area ISPs

[Bob Kline]

AT&T is very poorly rated in some
ways, including cell phones.  More
generally, the gap between advertised
performance and actual is much
higher with DSL.  I've tested Comcast's
cable speeds, and they are most often
as advertised.  When DSL says "up to,"
it's often not even that on a test server.

AT&T's U-verse has a 24 Mbps option,
but I rather doubt that's real.

I'm no Comcast fan, and it has pretty
much stated that it will not offer higher
speeds now unless it has to.  Sadly,
there really is nothing else around for
the highest speeds.

    -- Bob


On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Dan Pilcheck <pilcheck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> I'm finally fed up with comcast enough to look around for alternate
> ISPs, but it looks to be a sparse market for wired broadband.
> (And not because of the latest DNS outage, their resolvers are way to
> slow, anyways, imo.)
>
> I'm looking at /will be testing Clears (clear.com) 4G home service,
> but I'm not expecting that to be up to par.
> Ma Bell's U-verse is about the only thing I can see that can compare,
> but if the price is reasonable to the speed
> I'd prefer to give my money to some local/smaller provider.
>
> Does the Grand Rapids metro area have any other options!?!?
>
>
>
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