When 4G Beats WiFi

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So here at the house we switched from FIOS Triple Play back to plain old Comcast Internet, not because there was anything wrong with FIOS – in fact, in my opinion, it’s a thousand times better than Comcast in every possible way – but because of an overall strategy to lower household expenses.

So now we only have two choices for TV: Over-the-air HD television using vintage rabbit ears, or Netflix on a PS3. (Guess which one I usually pick.) And we don’t have a land line anymore. None of that is the slightest bit of concern to me, in fact I’ve wanted to “cut the cord” for a long time.

Here’s the point of all this: I only have 1Mbit downstream Internet now. That is the cheapest “broadband” available from Comcast (and it still costs 3 times as much as dial-up, but that’s another rant). So I went to watch a YouTube video on my phone this morning over WiFi, and it was all stuttering and crap. So I turned off WiFi and switched to 4G, and it played smooth as butter. Heh. I don’t know, I just thought that was funny.

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