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Let me just drop Comcast like a bad habit. Oh wait. I can’t. There’s not another provider in my area with similar speeds. So I’m screwed.



For my part, I'm quite happy with the not-Comcast I have at home, compared to the Comcast at my coworking space.

The nominal speed is 1/10 as much, but the actual difference in actual experience is much smaller, because the not-Comcast provider does a much better job of actually delivering on the speeds they claim to be selling me. It's really only a noticeable difference when I want to do something like download an OS install image. Which happens infrequently enough that, for me, going with Comcast would have worked out to something on the order of getting that image an hour faster for $200 per time I do it.

More importantly, not-Comcast stays up. The coworking space's Internet service is maddeningly intermittent.


I know and 90% of the web wants to give Comcast even more power to keep out competition by turning the Internet over to lobbyists.


90% of the web? Who specifically are you talking about? Is this big-startup-co or...?




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