This is the speed we get on a good day, to a server close by: »www.speedtest.net/result/1406689870.png. It says 'AT&T'on the speed test because Suddenlink rents AT&T's lines, not because I'm actually with AT&T and lying to you.
This is at the best of times, and is still unacceptably slow. This is not 8MB/s. This is not what we pay for.
The worst part is that we get 8MB/s down in the middle of the night, so it's not a technical problem or anything. Suddenlink simply hooks too many customers up to its nodes because it's too cheap to build infrastructure. They shape my connection in order to avoid paying for the hardware needed to hook me and my neighbors up to a new node so that we can get advertised speeds. It's not OK.
I lived in Arcata for the first half of my life...I know for a fact that if you are in the city limits then you can chose between Suddenlink and AT&T...I'd bet that there are still some local and 3rd party ISPs available too....I believe that eliminates the monopoly issue...
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