Rate your ISP!

[Devon_Pearce]

I get 25MB down and 2MB up, which I find to be decent... I guess. The problem I have with that is its the fastest internet package that you can get on the old infrastructure and I'm paying $90CAD for it which is absolutely ridiculous because the new fiber internet network (which the company I work for is currently helping to install) will allow me to get 100MB down for for $75CAD. That would be great if it was available in my area, but its not. They literally completed the entire area just west of my home, and stopped 2 blocks away! So I know there are people worse off in the world for internet so I'm going to give them a 5/10.   

[Sauron]

Pre-historical. 1.5/10 (not 1 because they are finally rolling out cabinet fiber)

[Raffy98]

Didn't know there was another topic...

[baxtmann]

isp name: xplornet

Plan:10 down 1up

Actual: 0.1up 0.1 down

Rating:0.1

 

they are the worst and only isp where i live.and a fibre runs right down my road by they wont let me use it!!!! they make me use sat. interent!!!!

[Raffy98]

isp name: xplornet

Plan:10 down 1up

Actual: 0.1up 0.1 down

Rating:0.1

 

they are the worst and only isp where i live.and a fibre runs right down my road by they wont let me use it!!!! they make me use sat. interent!!!!

:lol:

[MattBoxer]

ISP: TalkTalk Fiber Medium

 

Advertised: 38/2 Mbps

Actual :

 

2/10

Frequent disconnects and low uploads and that is why I am moving to BT due to their use of a different cabinet.

[Steven9595]

-Comcast
-105/15
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-4/5
-$130/mo including home phone and pretty much every channel.

[evilarceus]

ISP Name: Verizon
Plan: 75/75
What I get: 20/30 on wireless, 80/80 on wired
Rating: 3.5/5: Random cut outs and slow speeds at night makes for a pretty big cost is pretty annoying.
Cost: I believe it's $130/mo

[assassinj0hn]

 

ISP: OoredoO Qatar

Plan: 100Mb/s

What I actually get: 98-120MB/s

Rating: 5/5. Internet is perfectly stable and no Data Caps

[TheComputerdude]

Spectrem AKA time warner

what We are rated for 25 meg

what we get 20-25 meg 15 in peaks

we pay $70

rate 2/5 they are overpriced cause they are the only ISP and they have the worst customer service

[ThatFellaNick]

ISP: Cox Communications

Plan: 150Mbps Down 10Mbps Up

What I get: 160-170Mbps Down 13Mbps Up

Rating 5/5

[Donut417]

Comcast (Xfinity) 

75/10

90/12 on a good day with out QoS options turn on in my router

Rating: 3 (Only get a 3 because service is rock solid. Because their customer service is a joke.) 

$46 a month for Steaming bundle (Comcast stream service and internet. 

[mtz_federico]

ISP: Axtel (in mexico)

Plan: 200 Megabits down and up

What i actually get: 200 down and ip

Rating: 5/5

[Lurick]

16 hours ago, Howardtruth said:

I have switched between two providers a few times so here are both:

ISP - AT&T Fiber

Plan - 1000 Mbps Up/Down

Real speeds - 750-800 Up/Down

Rating - 3/5. Plenty fast for any of my needs but randomly cuts out, usually daily. It usually only happens for a few seconds but causes my access points to take around a minute to reconnect. Would be perfect without these errors

I know why that's happening

It has to do with their stupid implementation of DHCP. It's on a 5 minute refresh timer and most hardware won't always respond fast enough to the refresh request.

[Lurick]

9 minutes ago, Howardtruth said:

Is there anything I can do to fix this?

A different box from AT&T that does 10 minute refresh timers is about it

[Sc8808]

I used Cannet Telecom. 

And it is one of the third-party internet providers in Canada

 

 

[Donut417]

WOW, I was at 75/10 when this thread was made. Now Im at 400/10. Value wise it sucks because crapcast wants $92 a month and we have that stupid 1.2 TB data cap. Maybe one day we will have a real competitor come in to the area. 

[byalexandr]

ISP - AT&T Fiber

Plan - 1 Gbps

Actual - 970 Mbps down, 750 Mbps up on wired, ~300-400 Mbps over 5GHz

Rating - 1 out of 5

 

The speed is no problem. Had AT&T given me more capable equipment (8192 session limit and dropped connection at less than 60% load? On a gigabit fiber line? Seriously?) or stop being so restrictive on using your own equipment, the rating would be higher. Their customer service is a -10 out of 5 as well. Not to mention they charge additional on top of the service to use their garbage equipment...

 

Can't wait to have pfSense configured with multiple APs...

[Mark Kaine]

tkom

 

5.5/10

 

its pretty stable

 

speed is *almost* as promised 

 

but something isn't right, i often get a lot of lag playing online games,  ping is generally *bad* like 25 ms to only like 10km away? Sometimes it feels the further away people are (like in Japan or korea?) the better it gets with the lag... kinda weird, but must be some routing nonsense tkom is pulling off...

 

Even youtube lags in weird ways sometimes, like it did 15 years ago , "buffering", but it doesn't do that often thankfully. 

 

So overall not really bad but kinda bad, only ok kinda, at least its mostly stable, i guess.

[Donut417]

1 hour ago, Mark Kaine said:

only like 10km away?

Physical distance doesnt mean thats the distance the stuff travels. It all depends on who your ISP peers with. Some ISP's dont do direct peering with things like Netflix, most of the time its just a major backbone provider. In some cases smaller ISP's might peer on to a larger ISP's network, so there could be multiple networks the traffic is having to travel before it gets to its destination. 25 ms for games shouldn't be too bad. I recall when under 80 ms was considered good. 

[firestronk]

Currently living away from my primary residence, so I'll rate both of my current ISPs (Verizon is at my primary residence).

 

ISP: Spectrum (New York)

Plan: 500 Mbps down

Actual: Anywhere from 500-600 down, 20 Mbps up

Rating: 0.5/5 - Their equipment is flaming garbage and they try to sell you on their mobile/cable plans constantly. Very annoying getting spammed with emails by them with subject lines such as *URGENT* OPEN IMMEDIATELY even though it's about upgrading plans or something else. Currently paying a promotional price of $40 a month for this. I believe after the promotion ends it jumps up to $100 a month or something like that. I'll be moving back long before the promotion ends though.

 

 

ISP: Verizon Fios (Pennsylvania)

Plan: 980 down/980 up

Actual: 980 down/980 up

Rating: 5/5 - Speeds usually drop down to 920/920 during peak hours which isn't a big deal. Their fiber has been very reliable with minimal downtime and their support has been awesome when I needed to contact them. Current paying $80 USD a month for it.

[Donut417]

3 hours ago, firestronk said:

Their equipment is flaming garbage

This is why I bought a modem and separate router for our Comcast. Because ISP's tend to peddle garbage on to their customers.

[firestronk]

2 hours ago, Donut417 said:

This is why I bought a modem and separate router for our Comcast. Because ISP's tend to peddle garbage on to their customers.

Spectrum is by far the worst that I have seen thus far. Wanna change your router settings? You need to download their mobile app to do that. Once you get their app, the only settings that you can change are the names of devices on the network and very basic port forwarding rules. 

[Donut417]

1 hour ago, firestronk said:

download their mobile app to d

Comcast is the same, which is why we dont use their equipment. At least Spectrum doesnt have data caps. 

[firestronk]

2 hours ago, Donut417 said:

Comcast is the same, which is why we dont use their equipment. At least Spectrum doesnt have data caps. 

I wasn't aware of Comcast doing that, that's good to know. Major downside to Spectrum is that their agents are known to tack on additional charges for services when you call for support and they'll randomly change up their prices. I'm looking forward to returning to my other place and having Fios again.