Hank MI wrote:
Although fiber should offer the fastest service our cable runs in the mid 90's to over 100 mbps.
Verizon has been trying to get us to switch to fiber - not even sure what speeds, as the salesman couldn't give me a direct answer, but guessing at least 100 Mb/s. Our cable speed was 35/10 when we first updated from DSL 10/1, then 90/12, now with the companies competing we locked in for 2 years and got 275/15 for the same price as before. Then again, we're in a large metro area and seem to be spoiled for choice.
Many of our friends who live further out have fewer choices and some of them use regular DSL - we were lucky to get bonded DSL at our seasonal site too, for 25/12 Mb/s. What's annoying about DSL is the lack of choices in the modem/router, it's old technology even VDSL. If you want to split off the wireless router from the modem, the modem is still 12-15 year old technology.
Wrace wrote:
but on some of these homes they may have only dsl, or maybe cable.
Don't completely discount a house because it has DSL, for example. It depends on your needs and possible growth. I can survive on 25 Mb/s (won't like it much!) but not everyone. Also depends on whether you'll be down/uploading large files - that can make things frustrating.
