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Originally Posted by ApK
I'm keeping my 3Mbs DSL and I just got 25Mbs cable. The DSL goes out whenever it rains, and doesn't leave much bandwidth if two people are watching streaming video while I'm trying to work on line. The cable has the bandwidth, but the speed is HIGHLY variable depending on neighborhood load, and even when it's fast, my Netflix seems to need to rebuffer more than on DSL.
I'm probably going to set the video streaming devices to use the DSL and the other devices to use the cable.
The point of this in the context of this thread is that having options is important, and more competition to help drive more reliable service would be good.
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I couldn't deal with 3Mbps. I hated using data when I had my Nexus 7 3g, so I got the lte version as soon as it came out.
In my area there is both cable and fios, but I would hardly call that competition. I have cable and don't see much change in speed no matter what time of day it is except when they are doing an upgrade. It wasn't always like that though. In just the past couple of years it seems to have improved.