 Review by MovieLover76 
member for 3.5 years, 773 visits, last login: 2 days ago
updated 1.6 years ago
 Keyport,Monmouth,NJ
 $29 per month about 7 days "Connection is stable" "Most of the time I'm lucky to get half my advertised speed, peak period is really bad" "I'm moving in October and also switching to FIOS"
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UPDATE - OOL has gone down the drain.
Cablevision has now been proven to be the worst at providing advertised speeds,
The connection is reliable though never had a problem in the 2 years I've had it.
But the speeds are just horrible, on regular OOL I was lucky to get 3-5 Mbps on what was supposed to be 15mbps line, if I dared to try to download something while watching Netflix, Netflix would stall and need to buffer.
So I upgraded to boost, when I did this i was still in a promotional period so it was an ok deal 29.99 + 15 for boost = $45. Boost used to be fast, but over the past year it's so slow, I now get between 6 - Mbps, 10 being the average probably on a Mbps line, and during peak I almost always never break 6-8 Mbps,
Atleast on boost I can watch Netflix and download at the same time, but getting 1/4 to 1/3 of your advertised speed is unacceptable.
Every other cable system is upgrading to DOSCIS 3.0, cablevision has it but only for customers that want to pay $100 for internet a month, their current system simply cannot support the number of users in the Netflix era. I've been paying $65 for this crap for about a year.
I'm moving in October and I'm switching to FIOS, it comes out about $15 more than cablevision triple play, but I'm willing to pay that to get my advertised speeds and uncompressed HD
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I have had optimum online for over 2 years and constitantly been pleased with it, moved to another location that had fios as an option but since the house was already wired for directv didn't choose fios, as far as the internet service goes I'm very pleased with optimum, I hated there cable service, so leaving for anything directv or fios was a no brainer for me.
Honestly I choose optimum over fios because I had a lot to do while moving and I didn't want to have to babysit a verizon fios installer all day when I had a lot to do.
and while technically better technology, we have fios at work and the speeds and pings are almost identical, so I choose the shorter install time and cheaper price (well for the first 12 months atleast)
Update - speeds have been slightly inconsistent, at peak hours connection drops down the 6-8 Mbit and has a couple times dropped down to about 1 - 2 MBit which was a major problem as I was trying to watch netflix HD, I may have to upgrade to boost, I don't need more than 15/2 but this node seems crowded, in my last apartment I had to upgrade to boost to get the consistent speeds as well, I was trying to save a few bucks. I'll give it a few more weeks and decide
Update - I was on boost while I was under the first year commitment, as it was only $45 a month on the promotion, switched back to regular ool for the past 2 months and the inconsistent speeds issues appears to be working fine,
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 | | Optimum boost scam I was averaging 15 mbps until one day the cable man was seen on the pole, and everyone in my neighborhood suddenly had 2 Mbps. So I upgraded to Boost and got my 15 Mbps back, for a while. Now in the evening I am lucky to get 5 Mbps, a third what they promise.
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