time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

[Chris Linstid]

As I understand it, third-party ISPs have to "rent" the lines they want to
provide service on from the owners of the lines. They must not have a deal
with FairPoint for your area. :(

I'm in Amherst and use Comcast. I love to hate Comcast, but to be honest, I
have had very few problems with them and I get 30 Mbps/5 Mbps for
advertised bandwidth and I actually get that bandwidth most of the time. My
latency is generally really low unless there's a strange route. My example
of that was when I worked at Dell in Nashua who used Verizon for their ISP
and I was routed down through NYC and then back up again. But even then, I
was getting ~80-90ms pings. Good enough for most things, but now that I
work at Dyn who is using Comcast for their ISP, I'm much happier. I
generally get sub-30ms pings. :)

So, I'm not sure if Milford has Comcast (pretty sure they do), but from a
technical standpoint I generally recommend them.

     - Chris


On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:28 AM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:

> I'm on Fairpoint DSL in Milford. My measured down/up speed is about
> 3Mbps/.6Mbps.
>
> I remember hearing good things about G4 from this mailing list, but they
> said:
>
>     At 12000 feet from the CO, we would normally estimate speeds in the
>     5-6Mb. However it looks like your connection goes through FairPoint
>     equipment that our connections do not go through. Sorry we couldn't
>     help you.
>
> Does anyone have more information about this? Does Milford have two
> parallel sets of equipment only one of which G4 can use? Or do they mean
> they just don't serve Milford?
>
> I've been on Fairpoint's site to try to glean anything about anything
> and there's basically no information there. They don't even say what
> speeds or prices their existing products are at, let alone what
> potential upgrades there are or anything about equipment. The bill just
> says "HSI - Standard" which I assume means "High Speed Internet".
>
> Are there any other options in Milford? Or is this equipment thing
> limiting me? There's always cable, but my vague perception is that cable
> internet sucks for several reasons. Maybe I'm behind the times.
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