I got Comcast internet in September, the 200MBPS plan for 50$ per month and for the first 2 months speed tests averaged 150MBPs down and 6MBPS up... For the first 2 months, then speed degraded to 50MBPs down and 3MBPS up... somehow, and isn't going back up. Criminals.<p>The main reason why I didn't have much choice was that Verizon was out of stock on routers and I needed a connection immediately. Verizon was more expensive anyway, and their plans were tied to specific hardware, which would make it difficult/more costly to upgrade easily later on.<p>I also had an order in for T-Mobile's home internet at $50 per month where speed tests averaged 50MBPs down and 3MBPS up...<p>I personally believe that all services are seeking advantage with any customer plan, so my solution is to keep both services and just switch to with network that is more reliable and as an end result be able to have Internet that is less dependent on a single point of failure with my Verizon phone as a potential back-up hotspot.<p>Plain and simple, it's fleecing and theft that Government has permitted over a long span of time that will not change. All of the plans and terms of service are changed at the will of service providers. They learned their tactics from mobsters and drug dealers... Thoroughly convinced that possibly some decedents of crime organizations run a lot of these companies to be honest.<p>May your costs be low and your speed high my friends... Ay... :/
This is damning evidence that packet shaping is completely necessary and that net neutrality is unrealistic.<p>All packets are not created equally: zoom packets for client A or Call of Duty packets for client B <i>should</i> go ahead of a 30s chunk of Netflix video for client C that has 60 seconds of video in the tank.<p>The net neutrality solution to this problem is to spend billions of dollars building out redundant and wide pipes so that everyone can go fast all the time.<p>Comcast solved it with router configuration.