Mods, if this is in the wrong place, or inappropriate, I apologize...delete if necessary.
Anyway, I currently have DeathStar (or Striped Blue Globe, or whatever you want to call them) as my Internet provider, and I have VERY low end DSL. I've been thinking of upgrading.
I checked DeathStar's website recently, and the fastest I can get in my area is 3Mbps. The problem is, we use the Internet a LOT at my house (YouTube, I work at home 1 day a week, wife plays a facebook game, son uses Khan Academy, I download LARGE files for development projects, like Visual Studio, Eclipse, Android Development Toolkit, OpenOffice, I'm taking online classes, etc). With the newer plans, DeathStar "caps" usage at 100GB per month, then charges for every 50MB over that (something like that).
With what we do on the net, I could easily see us going above this 100GB "cap" quite frequently.
There's another company that services my area, well call them PlanetConnection. They offer the SAME 3 Mbps, but they don't have a cap.
My wife is reluctant to go with PlanetConnection, as she says, "Does anyone even use them anymore??"
I don't want Satellite Internet, and we don't have a lot of cable options out here, either. We can't get "Red Checkmark" either where I live.
Anyone got any advice? Have any of you in the U.S. used PlanetConnection, and what did/do you think of them?
I'm gonna have this connection on between 4 and 5 computers...
Thoughts?
Anyway, I currently have DeathStar (or Striped Blue Globe, or whatever you want to call them) as my Internet provider, and I have VERY low end DSL. I've been thinking of upgrading.
I checked DeathStar's website recently, and the fastest I can get in my area is 3Mbps. The problem is, we use the Internet a LOT at my house (YouTube, I work at home 1 day a week, wife plays a facebook game, son uses Khan Academy, I download LARGE files for development projects, like Visual Studio, Eclipse, Android Development Toolkit, OpenOffice, I'm taking online classes, etc). With the newer plans, DeathStar "caps" usage at 100GB per month, then charges for every 50MB over that (something like that).
With what we do on the net, I could easily see us going above this 100GB "cap" quite frequently.
There's another company that services my area, well call them PlanetConnection. They offer the SAME 3 Mbps, but they don't have a cap.
My wife is reluctant to go with PlanetConnection, as she says, "Does anyone even use them anymore??"
I don't want Satellite Internet, and we don't have a lot of cable options out here, either. We can't get "Red Checkmark" either where I live.
Anyone got any advice? Have any of you in the U.S. used PlanetConnection, and what did/do you think of them?
I'm gonna have this connection on between 4 and 5 computers...
Thoughts?
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