All those problems with Xfinity! I have Spectrum and they're not perfect, either. But their faults aren't at all like yours. With Spectrum, they'll sometimes just go down for a half-hour or an hour and if you call them an automated message will tell you that it was scheduled upgrade or service downtime. But you are never notified about it beforehand, so it either wasn't scheduled or they don't care to tell you. Fortunately, those outages are maybe three or four times a year. And their cost is pretty high, I think. For 100 MBPs I pay $75 a month plus taxes. And they're the only game in town that will give you anywhere near that speed, too. Cellphone carriers are trying to get into the act now, too, but they have data caps. And if you stream your TV as I do, you really don't want data caps. Ever. That's the downside of living in a rural community.
If you're really rural around here -- out on a farm, far out of town -- your best bet is satellite internet. You can get 25 MBPs down, but the uploading speed will probably be less than 1 MBPs. And then bad weather can mean no internet. Cheap and fast internet generally requires you to live in a big city. I would never do that. I have, and it's not for me.
If you're really rural around here -- out on a farm, far out of town -- your best bet is satellite internet. You can get 25 MBPs down, but the uploading speed will probably be less than 1 MBPs. And then bad weather can mean no internet. Cheap and fast internet generally requires you to live in a big city. I would never do that. I have, and it's not for me.
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