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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

At least with telecoms speeds are fast enough now (in my area)that it just doesn't matter which provider I use so I always go with the discount guys now and its great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Same with phone plans. You either get 50Mb/s for cheap or a fancy "5G 400Mb/s!!!" for three to five times the price that ends up being 100Mb/s in reality anyways

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I can't stand telecom companies, I bounce around all the time. They ALWAYS have terrible customer service too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nowadays reliability and coverage is actually the selling point.

They may all have enough speed, but usually the expensive ISPs are more reliable. Mostly because the "cheap ISP"s are just the expensive ones in a trenchcoat selling excess bandwidth. But when the excess bandwidth is no longer excess, the cheap ones are the first to be cut off.

So if you don't need 99.99...% uptime, the cheap ones are much better.