What kind of service does buckeye express offer?
DSL, VDSL, DOCSIS, Fiber, PtP wireless (probably not it if it's consistent)

Fiber, I assume.

This is what I currently have through Buckeye:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/4312178447.png

About $42 a month

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4312190676

most of the time its ok but sometimes i randomly get like 200-300 ping later on at night

proceed with caution

Alright so how do you connect? Do you have a router with an Ethernet Cable that plugs into the wall, a Coaxial Cable that comes from a splitter into a Modem, or a phone line that goes from your modem to a wall jack?

Coaxial Cable
http://litramfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/coaxial-cable-assemblies.jpg

DSL / Phone line
http://www.plus.net/images/support/broadband/hardware/dlink320b/dsl320b_microfilter.jpg
This picture has a filter for the DSL/Landline Phone line but basically it's a narrow ethernet cable

Ethernet Cable
http://images.wisegeek.com/ethernet-cable.jpg

Basically though, if they're both Fiber I'd take a Local option over AT&T in most cases. However if it's DSL/VDSL I'd take Fiber any day, and if it's DOCSIS (the one that uses coaxial cables) it'll depend if AT&T is pretty bad in your area or not considering DOCSIS tends to be really solid and have plenty of bandwidth especially with v3.0 and the soon to be v3.1

Also consider it's called "Buckeye Cablesystem" I'd guess at Fiber or DOCSIS.

I guess I never looked into it, but yeah, it's a coaxial cable into a modem. So DOCSIS

If you feel like Buckeye is pretty stable and solid I'd probably would stay with them unless you know AT&T in your area is solid and not ridiculously expensive.

is AT&T fiber optic what they call gigapower? if so thats what I have and this is what I get:

http://puu.sh/fXpWt/c211746a3c.jpg

its amazing

sweet fucking christ dippidy

Gigapower must be them trying to compete with google fiber. But no, I cannot get that here :/

This is the only reason I would ever consider living in a populated area.

No one out here in the boonies can get decent internet :(

Is it AT&T U-verse? They sorta advertise it as fiber because it is fiber to the node, and then copper to the home. If it is U-verse then don't get it. U-verse has inherently higher ping due to how they achieve higher bandwidth on DSL.

My experience with u-verse is when they sold it to us they quoted us a price and a speed and after installing we found the speed was way slower than advertised(like less than half) and when we talked to them about it apparently the deal they sold us isn't even available in our area. We had it removed and went back to our old company.

holy shit i live in toledo too