I wish there was an "affordable" in there somewhere. It's crazy that I live in a decent sized city, only six miles from downtown and I have two options: 1 - Comcast at reasonable speeds for ass-raping prices 2 - US West/Qwest/CenturyLink at reasonable prices for 12Mb/s oh well... first world problems...In the agency's latest report, it found that 10 percent of the population — 34 million people — do not have access to broadband Internet with a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 3 Mbps.
We have Time-Warner. On the bright side, Time-Warner has a "Business Class" service, through which they will sell you fiber with a not-great-but-much-better-than-cable SLA for expensive but not ridiculous if you work out of your home amounts of money. On the not-so-bright side, they are still a cable company. You have not lived until you have called Time-Warner to report an outage and had two hours of "Can you try resetting the cable modem?" "I have fiber, not cable. I have no cable modem to reset." "Is there a device plugged into both the cable outlet and your computer?" "... why don't you save us both some frustration and escalate me now?" "I can't do that until you try resetting your cable modem."
ME: My cable is out. They: Try resetting your modem. ME: Upstream signal is offscale low and I cannot hit the core DHCP server located in the colo on market street.... They: sir, please hold I'm escalating you.You have not lived until you have called Time-Warner to report an outage and had two hours of