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I switched ISP's today.

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Due to both a speed increase on Insight and extremely poor customer service from Sigecom*, I switched ISP's today and here's what I get using the speed tests over at broadband reports.

Old ISP:
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New ISP:
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I've run these tests many times before and the old ISP result is among the faster results I've seen, while the Insight one is about in the middle of the ones I've run since it was installed earlier today.

Not only is it faster, but my total bill dropped by $12 because the landline phone service is cheaper. :lol:



*I've had issues with the broadband failing to work for days at a time, and Sigecom's tech support would tell me each time that it was my modem and everything was fine on their end.
The last time this happened I forked over $50 for a new modem from them (they wouldn't give away a modem to keep a 7 year customer, but were handing them out to new ones :roll:) and of course it didn't solve the problem because it turned out to be a fiber line on the pole outside the node that was bad.

Plus they were recently bought out by a company called Wide Open West, and from what I've read, their reputation for customer support is even worse than the experiences I had with Sigecom.
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That's a nice download speed.

Personally I'm pretty happy with my download speed (even though it's only 3 megabit), I just wish I could get more upload.
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ISPs, not ISP's. :P

But good for you, Tex. Hope the rest of the US starts getting a good service from now on. I know here in the UK there is a major broadband war going on helping us the consumers.
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Download speed: 6161 Kb/s
Upload speed: 350 Kb/s
Latency: 10ms

Can anyone tell me how good of a connection this is? My ISP is Comcast, if that helps...at all...

When I clicked on the tab that said 'compare', it said that my download speed is 18% worse than the 3221 other Comcast customers tested, and my upload speed was 17% worse. Why is this? Is it possible to get a better speed through another company, and if so, who?

How big of a factor does my modem and/or router play in this?

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Admiral Valdemar wrote:ISPs, not ISP's. :P
Pardon me, Leftenant English. :P
But good for you, Tex. Hope the rest of the US starts getting a good service from now on. I know here in the UK there is a major broadband war going on helping us the consumers.
The speed bump was a bonus as the real motivation behind the switch was the piss poor tech support and customer service from my previous ISP.
I came real close to getting DSL/DishTV/landline service from AT&T, but the price would have been about $20 per month higher and right as I was about to order it, Insight announced their speed upgrade.

BTW, Indiana residents are nicknamed 'Hoosier', not 'Tex'. :lol:
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Could be better, but I suppose it's not too bad for living out in the boonies.

It's still a hell of a lot better than dial-up, so 256 times 5 Kbps is fast enough to make me happy. :)
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3254 / 358 (Kbps)
(397.2 / 43.7 KB/sec)
Compared to the average of 284 tests from rogers.com:
* download is 26% worse, upload is 63% worse


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4597 / 358 (Kbps)
(561.1 / 43.7 KB/sec)
Compared to the average of 284 tests from rogers.com:
* download is 3% better, upload is 63% worse


Crappy upload. :(
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test across the whole range :)
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Much better. Still a crappy upload.
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Damn...
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University connection :P

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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Damn...
Phong has one of them new-fangled Verizon FIOS connections.

I want. :(
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I didn't intend for this to turn into a penis waving..err bandwidth comparison contest, but I'd say Phongn won. :lol:

This is the best I've got with the cable modem:
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Uraniun235 wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Damn...
Phong has one of them new-fangled Verizon FIOS connections.

I want. :(
I am so unfamiliar with that kind of connection speeds that I almost can't believe it at all.

That's like...fucking magic or something...
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Nobody has beaten my upload speed yet :P

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Stupid test on the other side of the atlantic :(

Here is a fair test based on a testserver in Sweden.

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Man, I want the kind of bandwidth you can get in Scandanavia or super-urbanized Asia.
Glocksman wrote:I didn't intend for this to turn into a penis waving..err bandwidth comparison contest, but I'd say Phongn won. :lol:
Well, I figured that Faram would handily beat me :P
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Image What I get at work. I manage to beat Phong on upload at least...
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Well, here's work (university to come next). Seeing as I work for a major telecom company, I had better get good speeds (not that I ever really take advantage of it, lest I get fired!)

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From work, pity I can't make full use of it.
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