Switching to Comcast Performance?

PariahConqueror · Aug 31, 2013

Comcast Performance is up to 20mbps, which is 3 times faster than my Verizon DSL High Speed Internet Enhanced at barely 7Mbps. Verizon started charge $5 extra monthly now because I only pay for internet....I want to switch to Comcast, because it seems much better for the same price. $45 a month for Verizon, $47 for Comcast but 3x the speed. However, I cannot switch because my parents pay for the internet and I am moving in 2 years so they say they will get new internet afterwards. I can play games fine with no latency lag and the download speed is about 700kb per second which is okay, but all my friends have better internet and they pay just a bit more or the same. Would it be okay if I don't switch? Or should I convince them? Only I use the internet in the house.

bill001g · Aug 31, 2013

If all you want is bragging rights for your friends that is a stupid reason to change.

You have to remember that the larger number does not mean "faster" in most cases. More often than not something else on the internet will limit you. For example your game only uses 700k/s so it will still only use 700k even if you got a 10g connection put in your house. This is the same for say streaming video. It feeds the data a fixed rate based on the resolution. As long as you have enough it will work just as good as if you have 10 times the bandwidth it needs.

You really need to think about the rates as capacity rather than speed. Say a movie takes a 1m stream. So you could stream 7 movies at the same time on your connection and 20 movies on the other one.....how many movies realistically can you really watch at the same time.

The only thing that a larger connection does help on is bulk download of data. So for the couple time you download a new game it will take a bit longer. The vast majority of people that actually use these large internet connections on a regular basis are using bit torrent....and most of that content tends to not be exactly legal.

If you had say only 2m or 3m the story may be a little different since it is pretty easy to use that with a couple people using the connection but 7m is fairly large

PariahConqueror · Aug 31, 2013

bill001g :

If all you want is bragging rights for your friends that is a stupid reason to change.

You have to remember that the larger number does not mean "faster" in most cases. More often than not something else on the internet will limit you. For example your game only uses 700k/s so it will still only use 700k even if you got a 10g connection put in your house. This is the same for say streaming video. It feeds the data a fixed rate based on the resolution. As long as you have enough it will work just as good as if you have 10 times the bandwidth it needs.

You really need to think about the rates as capacity rather than speed. Say a movie takes a 1m stream. So you could stream 7 movies at the same time on your connection and 20 movies on the other one.....how many movies realistically can you really watch at the same time.

The only thing that a larger connection does help on is bulk download of data. So for the couple time you download a new game it will take a bit longer. The vast majority of people that actually use these large internet connections on a regular basis are using bit torrent....and most of that content tends to not be exactly legal.

If you had say only 2m or 3m the story may be a little different since it is pretty easy to use that with a couple people using the connection but 7m is fairly large

I agree, it would be pointless to upgrade since I don't download things that I really need that quickly. I usually download overnight.

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