Wednesday, May 12, 2010

High Speed Internet Options?

Does anyone in the neighborhood have a high speed internet provider other than Comcast?  We continue to have trouble with them, and are wondering if anyone has found another option.

3 comments:

Jen said...

sadly they are all I can find right now. AT&T DSL, Verizon DSL, AT&t UVERSE are not available in this area.

An alternative but equally unreliable option would to be go through direct tv or dish network but their internet is down a lot as well and is still very pricey.

Kurt said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
Kurt said...

If you change your DNS settings on your router to use the Google public DNS you might notice a pickup in speed (I definitely did).

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

Comcast also 'slows' certian sites (Hulu/Youtube) down so you are forced to use their services (fancast) once I switched to Google's public DNS I have had a lot fewer drops with video streaming.

-Kurt