Well, this is just swell. We moved last month, and in doing so we decided to change our bundled services provider (TV, phone, and internet). Until this move, we had cable internet, and I knew that, as the new carrier was only providing us DSL, it would be significantly slower. However, we had had DSL in the past, and had been very satisfied with it. But, there’s DSL and DSL. Judging from my user experience, and from having been able to test my current provider speed through Speedtest.net, I would have to say my old DSL was three or four times as fast as my current one, which is averaging less than one megabit/second on the download. For the vast majority of surfing, disregarding giant downloads like Microsoft applications, my old DSL was not noticeably slower, in terms of general user experience and functionality, than the cable internet service I had until last month.
But no more. This is the Speedtest result from testing my home router.
Further links show that the average performance of this ISP is only half the average for California. I would be happy with that, though–as you can see I’m probably getting about an eight of the average.
A night or two ago I logged onto YouTube. It seems my DSL bandwidth was so minimal that YT defaulted to the minimal, mobile device format
NOOOOOOOOO!!
So clearly a change is called for, and that right eftsoons or stat. But how do I identify the best provider in my locality? Speedtest.net gives you the average performance for your ISP, but it doesn’t seem to rank all the ISPs by name.
Does anyone know of a website that does this?