Comcast is turning your Xfinity router into a public Wi-Fi hotspot

Re:Comcast is turning your Xfinity router into a public Wi-F... by munger on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @12:21PM (#7873471)

Unfortunately here in Louisville/Boulder Colorado, it's either Comcast or Century Link. I have tried both and done my own testing, and Comcast is still the best connection despite their price point.

I could not agree more about latency. My first try with Century Link last year had 120ms latency which is terrible because Comcast was 15ms. CL upgraded my neighborhood loop and got to 20ms which is fine, but the CL upload speed is still crippled at an outdated 768kb/s where as Comcast I get 3.5Mb/s upload. I work from a home office so upload bandwidth is important.

So since there is no other contender that has both good latency and upload speed I use Comcast for now.

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Re:Comcast is turning your Xfinity router into a public Wi-F... by selectodude on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @12:33PM (#7873559)

I hate Comcast as much as the next guy, but at least here in Chicago, they're very expensive and very good. I hate dealing with them, but paying $90/mo for 105/20 that works well is better than paying $60/mo for something that doesn't (RCN).

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