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I really wish I had other viable options. I live in SOMA and I have 1Gbps service from Comcast, which did go out last night.

My other options are DSL, so it's going to max out at 20Mbps or so.

I do have roof access, so I guess I could also see about MonkeyBrains.

All that said, during the outage, I just tethered to my iPhone on an AT&T unlimited plan, and was able to stream full quality video to my laptop. I think I speed tested it to about 80Mbps.

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I have both monkeybrains and comcast, with two of us working from home it is worth it for peace of mind. The way the concrete flooring and stucco walls in the building work means tethering doesn't work very well but I would go with that otherwise. They are both pretty reliable and pretty fast overall, much faster than DSL. But have been a few times one goes down, or has intermittent packet loss. The monkeybrains setup we use goes over coax and it is compatible with comcast going over the same physical coax and a media splitter.

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