stay away from at&t

Avoid wave broadband like the plague. I've had charter and comcast in the past. Holy shit though, wave makes me see comcast as a savior.

ISP providers tend to vary in most areas, at least from what I have heard/experienced. I have Comcast and have had no problems but I know a lot of people who have had terrible experiences with them.

it's entirely dependent on what area you live in, check broadband reports; just for example, charter is terrible in most parts of the country, but where I live I never have issues with my internet dying w/them and I'm supposed to get like 30/4 for speeds and get 50 or 60/4 most of the time.

on the whole though verizon fios is probably going to be the most ~consistently~ good isp where it's available

I live in Virginia if that makes a difference if some ISPs have better regions etc.

Centurylink where I live is pretty consistent. The speeds usually stay the same throughout the day

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verizon fios by a long shot, second best option in this area (nj/nyc) is optimum online (cablevision)

try using this to see what options you have in your area

http://www.internetserviceproviders.org/

http://www.internetserviceproviders.com/search-results.html?zip=23435

I'm being tricked...

cable is #1 if it actually works

http://www.speedtest.net/result/3690229386.png

yeah i'm pretty sure those websites are less than reliable considering I live in the middle of nowhere and it says verison fios is available

charter is pretty good imo

I guess I've been pretty unlucky with Fios. From having two defective routers to random outages and then my ping spiking up and down randomly for a month or two and claiming they couldn't help or weren't responsible for it (they suggested we upgrade our speeds to see if that fixed it and what do you know it did) Verizon has been a headache. At least that's not happening to others.

Charter is fairly solid as long as your territory isn't notoriously trash at paying bills.

For me Charters pretty terrible. Randomly cuts out and I have 50-60 ping to my own state.

I have heard great things about Comcast.

jk

Charters good where I live except for the one time I need it to be good: at night

During the day, I get 20-30 mb/s no problem, can watch streams in high quality with no buffering, perfect
At night, the node I am on gets way more traffic then it can handle (which makes no sense because I live in the middle of FuckingNowhere, Nebraska), and shits itself. I dip down to under 5, which when you're paying out the ass for 30, that's kind of shitty even if their TOS do say they don't guarantee that bandwidth all the time

Comcast is pretty reliable and has good ping, but way overpriced for what you get. In addition, their customer service has no equal in terms of shittiness (except maybe Verizon).

I should add, while their download speeds are pretty good, their upload speeds are AWFUL. I would not recommend it for streaming for that reason alone.

Optimum Online

I feel like fibre should give you better ping than that, though your speeds are pretty good.

Currently using charter, 30 down 6 up for $30 a month. Connectivity issues once a month. Pretty good overall. I upgraded from Verizon with 6 down and 1 up for $25 a month as well as a lot more internet issues.

Check out the listed rates and stay away from Comcast and ATT.

move to sweden

fios is really good if you have the cash for it

but as they say

Unless you've got comcast then it's pick 0

anyone lucky enough to have google fiber yet? When I had verizon fios it was fantastic...stable and good upload.

comcast is great for me in jersey

i haven't had any problems at all for the past 2 years

anyone know any decent canadian isps? right now im with rogers and its pretty shitty

verizon is only good in Maryland if you live in an area with fios. Everyone I know around me who's had verizon has switched off to comcast while they wait for fios.