ISP Comparison Chart

I hate pretty much all ISP's. I'm waiting for Google to turn on its dark fiber network and create teh interwebs 3.11 for workgroups. But I'm moving and have to figure out the best internet service provider for the occasion. We're currently (20090425) on u-verse, but the residential gateway doesn't support UPNP, and torrents are routinely killed outright, aaaaand apparently they're about to roll out bandwidth caps.

I wanted a comparison chart but couldn't find one. Here's a stab at homemade.



Explanations:

Comcast Throttling:

"Sustained use of 70% of your up or downstream throughput triggers the Best Effort state (as opposed to the Priority Best-Effort State), at which point you'll find your traffic priority lowered until your usage drops to 50% of your provisioned upstream or downstream bandwidth for "a period of approximately 15 minutes." A throttled Comcast user being placed in a BE state "may or may not result in the user's traffic being delayed or, in extreme cases, dropped before PBE traffic is dropped."

So you can never use 100% of what you paid for? I'm so confused by this.

I'll update the chart as I get more info or as things change. Remember, I'm in SF area so speeds, whatever blablabla could be different in your area.