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How to check the true speed of your Internet connection

Posted on September 22, 2021

Is your Internet connection really as fast as your ISP claims it is?

In reality, the answer should be yes (or at least fairly close).

Since there are many factors that affect the average speed of a typical high speed Internet connection, it’s unlikely that your actual upload and download speeds to will match your plan’s advertised speeds exactly.

But that being said, there shouldn’t be a whole lot of daylight between the two.

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Q&A: Should I buy my own cable modem or rent one from my ISP?

Posted on September 2, 2021

Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.

Question from Mike:  I have cable Internet through Comcast/Xfinity and I pay $14 a month to rent a cable modem from them.

While shopping for a router on Amazon I noticed that they also sell cable modems.

Would you recommend buying my own cable modem since the $168 I pay Comcast every year for a rental would actually buy one outright?  [Read more…]

Verizon boosts upload speeds for FiOS customers to match their download speeds

Posted on August 4, 2014

verizon-fios-logoIt has always been a sad fact of life that your broadband Internet upload speeds were a lot slower the speed at which you could download Internet content such as web pages, emails, photos, videos and such.

But if you have a Verizon FiOS fiber Internet connection, you can now kiss that annoyance goodbye.

Effective immediately, all new and existing FiOS customers will be able to upload data to the web just as fast as they can download it. This is a major development if you back up your computer’s data to the cloud, play interactive online games, or do just about anything else that requires the uploading of tons of data.  [Read more…]

Comcast announces the first 12 regions that will be subject to a data cap

Posted on June 18, 2014

comcast-xfinity-logoLast month Comcast announced that they plan to place a monthly cap on users’ Internet data usage, then charge their customers an extra fee if they exceed it. They also announced that the data cap will be rolled out across the country over time.

Well, the company has just released a list of the unlucky regions that will be subjected to the cap first, and here it is:  [Read more…]

Comcast to start capping Internet bandwidth usage

Posted on May 16, 2014

comcast-xfinity-logoIf you get your high speed Internet service via Comcast (aka Xfinity), your wonderful unlimited monthly bandwidth allotment will be coming to an end.

How soon Comcast will begin capping your monthly data usage depends on where you live, and that time-frame ranges all the way from “soon” to “any time within the next five years“.  [Read more…]

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