In SF both Monkey Brains and Sonic are excellent, pro-Net-Neutrality, pro-privacy ISPs who offer non-exploitative contracts for internet access which is unfiltered, blazingly fast, and incredibly cheap!
Comcast has a functional monopoly in my area, and that has been true my entire life except when I lived abroad. Our suburban home in Wisconsin, and again in South Carolina. Five different homes in Houston. Three in California. I shudder to think about the amount of information Comcast has on me, particularly if they snoop my network activity.
I heard about Monkey Brains from a pal. From a quick search, the only comparison site that seems to mention them is Yelp.
Lol If only. I can't remember the time I rented an apartment and had even an option other than a monopoly like Comcast. I've literally never seen it available in the midwest. You always just have the single choice, sadly.
My new place in San Jose has fiber to the premise, so I signed up for Sonic again. Good bandwidth, Rock solid service.
If you’re in a larger building (15+ units), there are a couple of other fiber providers that may be an option, if building management is up for it.
MonkeyBrains is a wireless ISP. I regularly get 25-40 Mbps from them (though they don’t guarantee that). I’ve had only occasional slowdowns and one outage lasting a few hours. (So, more reliable than Comcast had been, at least for me.) I’d heard rumors MonkeyBrains was planning some equipment upgrades that would let them deliver 60-80 Mbps, but no official announcement or timetable.
It's just such a pleasure to talk to someone who is actually listening to and thinking about your problem, instead of simply reading from a script.