Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:

I’ve been a Comcast customer since 1998 when I moved to The Cities. They recently jacked my rate to $103 per month.  I called but there is no customer loyalty reward program so fine, I’ll switch to T-Mobile.

That was a bust. It seems T-Mobile internet uses the same technology as my ordinary T-Mobile cell phone data plan, but somehow prioritizes ordinary cell phone data packets higher than internet data packets.  In busy times, the internet lag was worse than dial-up.  And that’s if the connection didn’t drop. 

Makes me wonder about other options. What do SITD readers use for internet connection? How fast and how reliable is it?  Anybody still using the telephone wires?  Anybody using Elon’s satellites?

Joe Doakes

 

I’m a little curious myself.   I’ve been on Comcast since ’99, and given that I do so much work from home the speed and, yes, reliability is hard to argue with.  

Starlink is JUST the wrong side of a viable option for me ATM.  But only just.  

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