Say what you want about Comcast....

[sld72382]

....But I absolutely love their internet service. I know people like to trash them (mainly because of throttling to torrent users, which I don't do anyway) but their service is the fastest I have ever used.

With my old cable company (a small local entity called Advanced Cable Communications), I would max at 700Kb a second when downloading (and that was rare). Which wasn't so bad, but the downside was their upload speeds - uploading videos to Dailymotion, for example, was downright painful as the max transfer rate I ever got was 45kb a second.

Now with Comcast - I have their plus version - I never get below 700kb a second when downloading unless a server is slow and I have sometimes gotten as high as 2MB a second or more. Uploading is now painless as uploading my videos to Dailymotion now runs around 320KB a second, much faster.

Now if only AT&T can increase their U-verse to beyond 15mbps - that's the only way I'll switch.

[Shards]

My issue with comcast is that they take their service down in my area at about 1 am for testing of some sort, which wouldn't be a big deal except that it happens frequently enough that we've noticed it. 1-2 am also tends to be the time when I finish my homework and need to post it on my class site, so it has caused me quite a bit of annoyance. Then again, it is a pretty decent connection when it is on.