This morning after tweaking my home network a little, I connected to the Internet at speeds of over 200 Mbps. My ISP, WebPass, started offering 200 Mbps earlier this month. I know raw download speed doesn’t mean anything especially if you start looking at websites hosted across the planet and services that are offered via the increasingly crowded public network. But still – a boy can feel good about his broadband ….
As the “bro’s” would say. Sweet! It’s like having a car with over sized power. Overkill but hey…
After a 9-hour outage, this weekend, followed by a lot of hollering on my part – 6 failed attempts to find out if this was a local outage or a hardware problem at my home network – I got a callback from Comcast.
When they asked what I’d like to see, I quoted your access and speeds – and they patted themselves on the back about 105 Mbps just turned on only 50 miles away; but, should be getting to my neck of the prairie “real soon now”.
Of course they’d have to charge me more. Right now, I pay about what you do for twice as fast – for 6 – 16 Mbps. And I have exactly one other choice available – offering less than 3 Mbps.
Free markets ain’t exactly heaven outside the 50 biggest DMAs in the country.