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by cookiecaper 5612 days ago
Wireless sucks if the carriers around here are any indication. My brother-in-law uses one and his connection has been throttled twice already for using too much bandwidth during peak hours -- and his usage is relatively small. The normal download rates are slow, a little less than normal DSL speeds (150k-200k) and the upload rates slower. You have to put up an antenna. They firewall you at their place and you have to call to get ports opened.

Really there's no competition to cable. Comcast is the only decent provider around here, it's much faster than DSL. Sucks.