New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: ISP Survey
Ask HN: ISP Survey
6 by S_A_P | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Im curious what the internet offerings in your area are like. I would be interested in knowing the following: 1) Country/State/Province/City 2) How many ISPs are in your area that you know 3) What is they highest bandwidth connection available that is "consumer grade" 4) What does that cost 5) What does the cheapest connection/bandwidth/cost 6) How good is the service? 7) Is Municipal/Government/public utility internet available? 8) Do you like your ISP? I will start. I live in a rural/country suburb of Houston TX about 40 Miles from downtown Houston. Currently, we have their "double play" service which is the following: 1) 1Gbps cable modem.(I can get pretty close to that most of the time.) Currently that is the maximum available in my area. 2) pretty much every channel they offer that isn't an international, porn or other niche channel. We have a large family of 7, so there are 5 cable boxes. That runs me around 180 per month in USD. Personally, I would like to cut the cord on cable, but its not really a huge savings to be had, and the spouse isn't ready to do that yet... I have managed to reduce costs somewhat by using roku boxes and purchasing my own cable modem. If there were other choices in my area, I can assume that would bring down costs. I don't know that I have any other complaints though. Comcast has generally been hated since their inception, and I do feel like things have improved somewhat.
6 by S_A_P | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Im curious what the internet offerings in your area are like. I would be interested in knowing the following: 1) Country/State/Province/City 2) How many ISPs are in your area that you know 3) What is they highest bandwidth connection available that is "consumer grade" 4) What does that cost 5) What does the cheapest connection/bandwidth/cost 6) How good is the service? 7) Is Municipal/Government/public utility internet available? 8) Do you like your ISP? I will start. I live in a rural/country suburb of Houston TX about 40 Miles from downtown Houston. Currently, we have their "double play" service which is the following: 1) 1Gbps cable modem.(I can get pretty close to that most of the time.) Currently that is the maximum available in my area. 2) pretty much every channel they offer that isn't an international, porn or other niche channel. We have a large family of 7, so there are 5 cable boxes. That runs me around 180 per month in USD. Personally, I would like to cut the cord on cable, but its not really a huge savings to be had, and the spouse isn't ready to do that yet... I have managed to reduce costs somewhat by using roku boxes and purchasing my own cable modem. If there were other choices in my area, I can assume that would bring down costs. I don't know that I have any other complaints though. Comcast has generally been hated since their inception, and I do feel like things have improved somewhat.
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