UPDATE: oh shit Verizon only has 5G but there’s also apparently some companies called Brightspeed and GloFiber. anyone heard of them?

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    9·
    13 days ago

    Fuck Comcast with a rusty spoon.

    Verizon sells you a service, and doesn’t care about you

    Comcast actively hates you - it’s like going into a business relationship with your ex-wife while your still fighting in court over the divorce settlement

  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
    5·
    13 days ago

    If Brightspeed and GloFiber are fiber then them hands down. We have a local fiber provider in town and it’s rock solid.

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      12 days ago

      yeah i never even heard of these! they weren’t even presented as options until i did some digging. yay. prob gonna do brightspeed cuz glofiber website is ass lol

      • BioMyth@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        12 days ago

        Glofiber is great! I’ve used them for a few years now and they have been really reliable & easy to work with. If you do any self-hosting they do have double NAT but after a quick call to support I was able to get a public ip without any cost.

  • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    13 days ago

    Verizon is annoying but at least they aren’t Comcast. Also if they offer Fios you can get service that’s 10-100x faster, especially if you have a need for upload speeds.

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      12 days ago

      man I’m on fiber now at the ols address, it’s so nice to have 400Mbps uploads. wish this isp served a little bit more broadly

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    13 days ago

    Back in the day when i was forced to use Comcast (xfinity), you would be charged out the ass monthly if you used Comcast’s equipment (modem/router).

    Now… to use Comcast’s highest speed plan, their customers are forced to use their equipment. Don’t worry, no rental fee.

    Now if you understand Comcast like I do… this is a ultragigagigantic red flag. They would never in a trillion billion years ever do something for free when they could charge you.

    I bet right now youre wondering “What is the catch?”. Well Comcast offers a cheap $10 a month internet plan. Sounds great right? Except the people on this plan leech off of the connection of those who pay Comcast their blood money for their highest tier plan using the equipment they force their high speed customers to use. You would be literally paying Comcast to host their other customers internet.

    Capitalism.