We’ve had 1.5mbps DSL since we moved in, but I finally got tired of the slow speeds. We’ve switched over to 6mbps Time Warner Cable, and the speed gains have been great.

I’ve seen a 250% increase in maximum bandwidth from roughly 200kbps to 700kbps.

I’ve seen increased ping times to many parts of the country (very important for online gaming). I did tests before and after the change using www.speedtest.net.

NY - 29.3%
NJ  – 16.3%
FL – 23.4%
TX – 14.1%
WA – 29.3%
ND - 25.4%

Verizon also stopped giving discounts for committing to year long contracts, so the cable is only $10 more a month than the DSL. I think we might even ditch the home phone completely seeing how the only calls we get on it are telemarketers. We don’t use all our cell phone minutes anyways, and even if we need to bump it up to next highest plan, we’d still save money. So better internet speeds AND saving money. I like!

I promise the next post will contain pictures of a baby.