What burns me up is the "3Mbps to 25Mbps" subscription. I'm getting 3Mbps and paying the same money that the folks getting 25Mbps pay...seems I'm subsidizing those folks' faster connection speed. Why not pro-rate it out in 5Mbps increments and make it more fair across the board? It seems the "internet for the rural area blah, blah, blah" mantra stated that everybody should be up to 25Mbps "soon". I think it's just a way for the telco companies to get some more tax money in and maybe stretch the slow-speed connections out to more subscriber$. I still know lots of folks around here that once off the major roads do not have wired internet service so I guess I shouldn't be complaining with what I've got.
I do agree with the cable companies under-rating their speeds and the telcos doing their best to hype their's beyond reason. Telephone companies are, in my opinion, some of the most crooked companies there are.
Something else that bugs the stew out of me with Centurystink is when I have an Internet connection problem. I've changed nothing, done nothing, and suddenly I've got no Internet. Naturally I've already rebooted everything, done this, done that, before I even call them. But, the guy in Houston, India that I can barely understand wants me to go through everything as he/she slowly searches his computer screen for what to tell me to do. Me, knowing the entire time that it's the blasted switching station down the road.
Ah well, don't get me started....