Verizon is offering service as fast as 3Mbps in my new neighborhood, also, so it looks like I'll go with Charter. I have an unreasoning dislike of cable companies (not that Verizon is wonderful), but I think I'll suck it up and choose Charter. I left Comcast in Clinton years ago because they had...was it 250GB/month?...data caps that I regularly ran over. I hadn't yet gotten into trouble for that, but their TOS allows them to ban you for running over their caps, and I didn't want to have to deal with that, or financially support such a company. Verizon DSL service in Clinton has been slower, and sometimes unreliable, but they have no caps (last I checked). The service in the new neighborhood promises to be even slower than what I have in Clinton, though, and that's insufferable.

Thanks for the advice, everyone! And I'll have to check for buffer bloat.

Rich

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:38 PM, JeffA Maillists <jeffa.maillists@gmail.com> wrote:

When I recently moved back to Worc, the options were: DSL or Cable internet.

DSL wasn't an option for me (IMHO), because the speed was predicted to be "as high as" 3Mbps on my street, so I reluctantly went with cable internet. The only cable provider in the city is Charter.

It's no match for the FiOS internet I had in Marlborough, but it's better than DSL.

Charter's advertised speed is 30Mbps, but I occasionally see upwards of 40Mbps. Upload is capped at 4.2Mbps.

Jeff

On May 5, 2014 4:46 PM, "Richard Klein" <rich@richardklein.org> wrote:

I'm moving back to Worcester after 5-ish years. I used speakeasy for DSL when I lived near Indian Lake, but they aren't the same company anymore, and the new place is just off Hope Ave, by the cemeteries, Hadwen Park, and the Auburn line. Can anyone recommend a good ISP out that way, or a good website to find an ISP?

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Thanks!
Rich

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