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Internet provider question

• Woodoworkery 3,498 Posts

  Wed, Jan 21 2015 5:29 AM

  This  would  be for members in the St.Charles ,Mo. area .

  I have AT&T  u verse  now and need to get more speed . Charter is offering , a faster speed, but what I would like to know is ,does anyone have Charter and are you happy with it? 

• filmslayer 2,341 Posts

  Wed, Jan 21 2015 5:32 AM

  what , need more speed for PP  ?

• Woodoworkery 3,498 Posts

  Wed, Jan 21 2015 6:02 AM

  No, have plenty for that. Its for this site when all my family is on their comps, and to be able to Twitch here with no probs.

  Now why on earth do you want to start crap up in the forums  about  that? Its been  beaten into the ground , they know its there, the conversation is over. Let it go FFS 

   

  P.S. Back to the question please

• garyk49 2,333 Posts

  Wed, Jan 21 2015 6:35 AM

   

  

  Gary, not in your area but this is my Charter.  60 miles south of Atlanta.  Have 100 mbps service.  These numbers stay pretty consistent.  Have 4 hard wired to router.  2 will run most of the time and don't see much variation of the numbers with 2 online.  Have not tried twitch, so can't answer that question.  Have some down time, but probably not really that bad.

• jayw4862 3,364 Posts

  Wed, Jan 21 2015 7:29 AM

  Woodoworkery:

  I have AT&T 

  AT&T is the worse ISP in the U.S (Google it). I have them, too, and no other options in this hick controlled town.

• jayw4862 3,364 Posts

  Wed, Jan 21 2015 7:33 AM

  garyk49:

   

  

  Gary, not in your area but this is my Charter.  60 miles south of Atlanta.  Have 100 mbps service.  These numbers stay pretty consistent.  Have 4 hard wired to router.  2 will run most of the time and don't see much variation of the numbers with 2 online.  Have not tried twitch, so can't answer that question.  Have some down time, but probably not really that bad.

  WOW!!!! I am drooling. Your upload speed is faster than my download speed on my best day. My upload is a whopping .42mbps :-(

   

   

• Woodoworkery 3,498 Posts

  Wed, Jan 21 2015 8:38 AM

  Well Charter  installation tomorrow morn. 

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Wed, Jan 21 2015 8:55 AM

  Woodoworkery:

  No, have plenty for that. Its for this site when all my family is on their comps, and to be able to Twitch here with no probs.

  I also have U-verse in the Chesterfield area Woodo...I haven't twitched(dwld speed 16.25 upload speed 2.97mbps) but my kids are always online and usually streaming Netflix and I don't have any problems here...there is a faster connection available but expensive.

  I had earthlinks medium speed and it wasn't as good as U-verse when the kids were on it too...

  Be careful with Charter, they are ripoff artists...I know several people who they got, but the connection is fast...lol

  with charter you have to have charter cable, at least basic, to get internet...they have a lot of hidden fees and change their prices with out notice...

  My oldest daughter got it, and their internet never worked, even after charter came out and tried to fix it 4 times...they cancelled it but charter still tried to charge them for it since they signed a contract...they finally got rid of the entire service .

  The billing department is horrendus even though the service is pretty good, and the repair dept is a complete joke in this area....I could tell you several charter horror stories in this area that happened to people I am close to.

   

• Woodoworkery 3,498 Posts

  Wed, Jan 21 2015 9:18 AM

  well I was at the fastest I could go with AT&T 12 mbps and the test showed I was getting 10 and when everyone was on at night,it slow down to a almost stop.

  Charter now has a no contact , and allows you to only get what you want, and says I will get at least 66 mbps download in my area. Also said I could run 10 comp, or tablets with out affecting the 66 mbps, but that is their product.

   

  All I can do is hope it works as well as they say.

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Wed, Jan 21 2015 9:30 AM

  What area of St. Ch ya in? Old Town, St.P/ Cottleville or more toward O'Fallon/Lake St.L