said by iansltx :

You're paying 70c per GB?!? Yep, that's the amount for the 10/1 cable. Worse than Comcast, and on a 10/1 connection I couldn't live with it. $80 for 100 GB? Even more expensive...80 cents per gig. Meh, I'll take 10 Mbps unmetered DSL any day of the week; if I have a 30 Mbps connection I will use it more than 100 GB per month. 10 Mbps connection/60GB is the ame way.

Then again, suit yourself. Seems like you've got fast enough internet, but nothing terribly competitive. Yes, DOCSIS 3 can do 100+ Mbps on triple-channel, but you have to have the backbone for it. I figure that, with the per-gig costs, you could probably run a whole city off 100M ethernet/fiber even with the 30 Mbit tiers, since even the heavy users can't go beyond 100GB.

Yeah, I'll take Embarq, though people with different usage patterns than I (not streaming legal HD video, music, VPN, file uploads, backup, etc.) may be fine with a capped connection like that.

said by iansltx :

CenturyTel has 15 Mbp FTTH.

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Embarq also has a limited trial in Las Vegas from what I heard.

But they certainly aren't as aggressive as Verizon is with FiOS. When they bring fiber to the home in Northwest NJ, I may take them up on it. But for now? I'm not going backwards in speed to ADSL2.

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Also, as far as HD streaming goes, I'm pretty sure Netflix stuff is 5 Mbps or thereabouts. Ill have to try later on and count the bits going by, but I can absolutely do HD over my 8/2 connection.

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I can only get 5 meg service here. It may stream HD sometimes, but not all the time.

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As to reliability on Embarq, I have family in NC, who use Embarq. On holidays they have ping spikes, otherwise the connection is rock solid. Smokepings? A perfectly flat line.