Short question is: do you use both Comcast for the speed, and AT&T U-verse for the reliability? -- Details: I used to have Comcast some 15 years ago. The speed was good, but there was outage sometimes for 8 or 10 hours, about once a month or two. At that time there was no 4G or 5G speed on the phone, so hotspot was way too slow to provide Internet during the outage. As a result, I stopped using Comcast, which was 200Mbps or up to 400Mpbs, and switched over to AT&T U-verse, which was 18Mbps at the time, but it almost never had any outage. (I don't remember a single outage in 15 years). And now the 18Mbps went up to 25Mbps or 50Mbps if you ask the technician to come over and do something, and 25Mbps is just at the borderline of Apple TV for 4K movies. Also, I may download a game (Resident Evil 4 Remake), and it is like 60GB, and it is almost impossible (takes 7.5 hours but usually it got disconnected in the middle and I needed to start from scratch on the Mac App Store). I have tried 3 times and it never made it. Even downloading a 1080p for Apple TV (iTunes) can seem like forever... it can take 27 minutes for a 4GB movie, while on Comcast, it is taking like 1 or 2 minutes. (I subscribed to Comcast for 1200Mbps). I used to see: Downloading: 2.5 MB/s Now I see: Downloading: 80.5 MB/s It just blows my mind. I feel I have been like a snail for the past 15 years. I figured: I may even just keep Comcast and drop AT&T, because if there is outage, I can just use my 5G and 4G hotspot to survive that 8 hours. Or I can just keep both for peace of mind. If I keep both, for $50 each, it is not so expensive: 15 years ago, a lunch was $5.80, and today, a lunch is $15, so the $50 right now is like $16.66 15 years ago. What's your take? Do you use one or two ISPs? TC 320k
Add ATT hotspot data as backup.
Shilling for my employer obviously- but I’ve had Comcast for 10+ yrs. Of that about half was free as employee benefit. In last 2-3 yrs, there were maybe 4 outages. Of those 1 was caused by a tree falling in my backyard, and 1 was because some cables were accidentally cut during construction. Other 2 were region wide outages as I could confirm using some internal tools and were fixed within a hour. I got a text with 3 hour ETA but it didn’t actually take that long. Keep in mind this is over 3 years. I do not have to pay and take this with a grain of salt due to an obvious incentive to promote my employer, but I’d keep Xfinity and use mobile hotspot as backup. Friends who pay for the service tell me they get partial refunds for days when there is an outage, and there aren’t many of those.
Comcast + comcast storm ready (Verizon 4G) . Is what I use at my home. The storm ready device acts as an extender until there is an outage.
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Just get Google Fiber 1Gbps for $70/mo
the issue is that it is not available in many places. The same with those 5G cellular Internet box.