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    Still no fiber here, but I'll take what I can get.

    Was paying 55/month with Spectrum (bright house) for 200/20 down/upload. After the merger, they seem to be raising rates. My bill for next month is for $75, and was told it'd slowly go up every few months until it reached 111/month.

    I literally picked up the phone and called WOW (knology) while I was still in online chat w/ Spectrum and worked out a deal/have installation coming tomorrow. Told the Spectrum agent that I'm canceling tomorrow and didn't bother w/ retention at all.

    New ISP will be 60/month (Fees/taxes included + modem) for 500mbps/50. Talked them out of contract too, so that's my month to month price.

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    that's crazy. My buddy is paying $60/m (modem/router combo included) for only 10 down from Comcast. I'm paying $50 for 75 down from Comcast. Our only other option is Uverse.

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    welcome to da club sir

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    lol @ TWC:

    "If you ever feel like you have too much internet, give us a call and we'll be happy to have you back"

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    They're going balls deep here. "omg Google is ABANDONING their customers. Come to Spectrum. We'd never do that to you."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shenrien View Post
    Now when you lag you'll either check your modem or question the quality of the servers you're connected to.
    Wow, lol. I remember how this comment made me feel like a pleb before I got 800 down. Now I do this same exact thing the second I feel even a hint of lag.

    Life is good.

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    My 300 down is still more than enough. I blame all my lag on the server.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zetanio View Post
    My 300 down is still more than enough. I blame all my lag on the server.
    It was fine. But now I pay $20 less for 3.3x more down and 50x more up.

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    Good call

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    Just signed up for Verizon's new Northern Virginia Gigabit Internet service when I move into the new house on the 15th.

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    I recently heard WoW was near me but after checking my address it was a no. Would be nice to get higher speed for less money than Comcast.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kalmado View Post
    I recently heard WoW was near me but after checking my address it was a no. Would be nice to get higher speed for less money than Comcast.
    WoW internet? And fuck it'd be nice to get anything that is even the same speed and money as Comcast that just isn't Comcast.

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    Habit of typing WoW. But yes, it's WOW internet.

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    Of course it's not on the best coast /sigh

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    Man, I remembered Google was looking into adding Fiber to LA, saw this thread bump, so I decided to look it up. Apparently the LA expansion with a bunch of other cities was put on hold back in October because not enough profit was coming from the cities that already have it.

    Apparently not enough people are signing up. Which means you fuckers that do have it better start face slapping your friends to get it, so I can have it too someday. ;_;

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    My Verizon gigabit internet is much more like half gigabit or worse.

    Only Steam fully utilizes the bandwidth and even then it's usually only for about a minute then it trails down to under 500 m/bps (sub 40mbps usually).

    I also get lagged up on Netflix, Amazon, and even Youtube sometimes. Shouldn't take more than 5 seconds to buffer anything until 5 minutes in 720p.

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    I've been getting the lag consistently for a while now. I figured they were testing their throttled internet. It'd be laggy and slow as balls on Youtube but Crunchyroll would be better than usual.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrClout View Post
    I've been getting the lag consistently for a while now. I figured they were testing their throttled internet. It'd be laggy and slow as balls on Youtube but Crunchyroll would be better than usual.
    It's just slow downloads for me. Dropping under 1 mbps on this connection is fucking weird.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ksandra View Post
    Man, I remembered Google was looking into adding Fiber to LA, saw this thread bump, so I decided to look it up. Apparently the LA expansion with a bunch of other cities was put on hold back in October because not enough profit was coming from the cities that already have it.

    Apparently not enough people are signing up. Which means you fuckers that do have it better start face slapping your friends to get it, so I can have it too someday. ;_;
    Only gigabit in LA is AT&T. They announced a roll-out right after Google put a press release out. Apparently it's available in the SCV. But ya know, its AT&T. So good luck there.