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Dragon December 11th, 2014 4:53 PM

Who is your Internet Provider?
 
Because y'know, we wouldn't be able to browse the internet without a network connection of some sort! As the title says, who is your internet provider, and are you satisfied with them in terms of your internet's speed and stability? Why or why not?

As for me, my internet provider is Bell Canada, and you know, while it's not bad, the internet does have its.. ungraceful moments. Unless its' normal - like sometimes we find ourselves without a stable connection for minutes to an hour? But they always resolve the issue, so it's good.

Buoysel December 11th, 2014 5:06 PM

My ISP is Consolidated Communications, or CCI as they like to call themselves. I'm pretty happy with them. I used to have Time Warner Cable, and they sucked. I like CCI because I get 30/5 for $30 a month.

Tsutarja December 11th, 2014 5:23 PM

My family's ISP is Verizon FiOS. Before that, we had Verizon DSL, which was honestly some of the slowest ****. Right now, we get 25/25 for around $45, but that's from 2010 as well. I'm sure they have higher speeds now for lower prices, but don't get me wrong.

Hiatus December 12th, 2014 2:00 AM

We used to have Time Warner package at our house few years back, which, I believe, came with Road Runner. It was super-fast, and would load everything naturally without any hassle at all; I loved it.

However, some issues had caused us to eventually switch, and since we didn't exactly want to lose the experience that their service had given us, we wound up switching to an exact (well, maybe not precisely exact, but you know) replica, which would be Verizon FiOS. Luckily, this one turned out to be even better.

Due to budget cuts, unfortunately, we had to cancel our Internet plan from Verizon and go only with their TV and phone deal. Because of this, I was forced to switch to my cellphone Internet, which has data-cap; per month, the maximum amount of data I'm able to put under use is 5gb, and once those are done--which get burnt within merely a week--the speed wound slow down quite heavily.

Luckily, we're moving back to Verzion towards end of January, and once we do, things will hopefully go back to the way they were; I'm pretty excited for it!

Astraea December 12th, 2014 2:07 AM

Mine is reliance , fast and reliable

Altius December 12th, 2014 6:04 AM

Started off with SingNet dialup (owned by SingTel, a government-based company), followed by SingTel DSL and now on M1 fibre broadband.

I don't know. SingTel is just... terrible. They have poor customer support, and we're paying a lot for less. In the past, we coughed up ~$70 per month for 10mbps of Internet. They constantly overcharged us which often led to quarrels over the phone. The actual speeds were not amazing either. I can still remember YouTube buffer with no end.

Switched to M1 fibre partly due to a promotion ($39 for 100mbps) and did so right when my contract with $ingTel ended. I was really pleased with the switch. Everything just felt a lot faster. Of course, M1 isn't known to be the most reliable in Singapore, but I'm happy enough with the service and I don't think I will switch providers anytime soon.

SparklingMistral December 12th, 2014 7:44 PM

We've got Verizon FiOS. .-. Not much to say other than it's pretty pricey, but our internet is also bundled with TV & phone, so that's a thing too.

Starry Windy December 13th, 2014 11:46 PM

I used Telkom as my internet provider, and I think it's doing well, except if there is weather problems.

Alexander Nicholi December 14th, 2014 3:16 PM

Right now my ISP is Virgin Mobile, who doesn't sell broadband outside the U.K. however I'm on a cellular tether and they're my phone provider. Right now I'm a bit pissed at them because they cut my data speeds down from about 1Mbps to 65Kbps after using 2560MB which lasts me all of a week with how heavily I use it. My mother owes $560 to Time Warner Cable from like four years ago for a reason even she doesn't understand, but honestly they're the best in town and even with others connected over wireless here at my aunt's place we're getting over the 15/2 they pay for here. I want TWC.

Meganium December 14th, 2014 10:34 PM

Time Warner Cable. It's literally the only ISP in my town. We don't have AT&T or anything like that, but we all know AT&T sucks in terms of internet. I have a love-hate relationship with TWC right now. Their internet is freaking awesome in terms of speed (~15 mbps), and customer service is pretty good. The random outages I get (not just me, the whole freaking town gets an outage) are really annoying.

I never had any problems with TWC aside from the outages, Houston has Xfinity so I might end up getting that.

Lexa December 15th, 2014 1:54 AM

BrightHouse. They're not bright at all.
The internet cuts out every single night for about an hour.
It's quite ridiculous and annoying.

starseed galaxy auticorn December 15th, 2014 11:17 AM

We have Mediacom, which is most likely Arizona-based. XD It's an okay internet provider, but they have their days. However, since they updated something... can't remember what it was now, we haven't had any problems losing our connection at all.

obZen December 15th, 2014 12:00 PM

Using Time Warner Cable, absolutely hating it.
I heard that Google Fiber might come to Staten Island, which would be a Godsend

Warspirit December 15th, 2014 4:30 PM

Google Fiber! I love it because it's so fast. Sometimes I click a link and it loads so fast I have to take a moment to realize "hey my new page loaded." because it happens quicker than the blink of an eye.

Quote:

Originally Posted by obZen (Post 8533797)
Using Time Warner Cable, absolutely hating it.
I heard that Google Fiber might come to Staten Island, which would be a Godsend

please get it. I used to have TWC too and they're a pain in the arse. You'll love Google Fiber.

Morkula December 17th, 2014 9:35 PM

I'm stuck with Verizon DSL because I live in the boondocks. It's stable and rarely ever drops (it used to be horrible but they did some work with the wiring around my area and it fixed all the instability) but holy crap it's soon slow. I sometimes take stuff to work to download on my laptop just because we have FiOS there and it's exponentially faster.

Sheep December 18th, 2014 6:02 PM

I'm on Verizon FiOS! We have quite an expensive plan so the internet speeds are pretty darn good. Fiber sounds delicious (lmao) but we probably won't ever have it regardless of if it comes to Staten Island or not.

TRIFORCE89 December 18th, 2014 9:03 PM

I'm with Rogers.

We were with Bell for a long time, until I convinced the family to switch to Rogers because the TV quality was just subpar with Bell. Family preferred to bundle everything with one provider for minimal savings, so we got our Internet too from them. Which worked out well, faster and unlimited for less money. And compared to services like smaller, but popular, TekSevy I'm doing okay in speed test comparisons

Brendino December 19th, 2014 1:41 AM

I've got Shaw Cable as my internet provider, which is one of the two or three major providers here in western Canada. It's not the greatest, but I'm getting my internet for free right now, so I guess I have no room to complain (even though my previous provider Telus gave me 3X the D/L speed than I have now...).

Mesty92 December 19th, 2014 8:31 AM

I have Midcontinent. I'm paying $100 for 200/30

ninjaflowers December 20th, 2014 5:57 PM

Frontier is my internet provider it was ATT but frontier bought them out

SumGai December 20th, 2014 7:02 PM

Not many choices in Fairbanks Alaska. Just GCI, AT&T, and that other place.

I use GCI.

Skip Class December 20th, 2014 11:29 PM

I use Spark (used to be telecom) at home and I use vodafone for my phone internet. Both companies are two of the big ones here in New Zealand.

Mawa December 22nd, 2014 2:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dragon (Post 8529206)
As for me, my internet provider is Bell Canada, and you know, while it's not bad, the internet does have its.. ungraceful moments. Unless its' normal - like sometimes we find ourselves without a stable connection for minutes to an hour? But they always resolve the issue, so it's good.


Same as you! It is great in general, but sometime it just... crash. Then it is back on!

Dragon December 22nd, 2014 2:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mawa (Post 8543234)
Same as you! It is great in general, but sometime it just... crash. Then it is back on!

Yeah, it gets kinda annoying sometimes. xD

I reaaaaally want our family to switch to Rogers. ;A;

Mawa December 22nd, 2014 2:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dragon (Post 8543235)
Yeah, it gets kinda annoying sometimes. xD

I reaaaaally want our family to switch to Rogers. ;A;

Didn't heard anything good about Roger. My parents want to switch but my brother don't recommand it.
(but Hey everyone have they opinion :p )


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