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A Comparison of High Speed ISPs

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In my early Internet days my fastest Internet I could get living in rural Colorado was AOL dial-up at 48.8 kilobits. Earthlink and MSN could not even compare. But then one day we got high speed Internet, A whole whopping 9 megabits up / down for a whopping $100 a month. Now we are cooking. This was the early 2000s. Well when I moved to Indiana, Comcast offered to get me 25 megabits up / down but for $55 a month. They tried to sell me on 50 megabits up / down for $25 more a month but I did not need it. I just saved a bunch and 4x my speed. This was about 8 years ago. Well has my high speed journey been crazy since COVID. This is the story. ISP Reviews The following reviews are of three ISPs in the greater Indiana area stretching from 2016 – 2024. Comcast So while living in Indiana, the 25 megabits up / down was more than enough. I had a small stint as a contractor in Baltimore, MD for a year and T-Mobile came in clutch for hotspot 4G LTE Internet in the hotel. Well once back from Baltim...