Originally Posted by
KRSW
Nope, maybe, and nope. Doing a speedtest on T-Mobile right now on a Galaxy S7 (4 year old phone), 216Mbps down / 30.0Mbps up. Comcast is 28.9 Mbps down / 11.2 Mbps up. I'll talk about price below. And Comcast is NO way in Hades more reliable than cellular. I'm seeing 20-300 hrs/month of outages with them. It's been this way for years with them.
Depends where you're located and how much, if any, competition there is. Even in this area, the lowest Comcast internet-only package goes from $45-70. In many areas they have no competition, or perhaps a crusty 1.5Mbps DSL connection from the telco.
Comcast connections go to a gigabit and beyond, so just because you didn’t subscribe to a particular service level doesn’t mean wired isn’t faster. Comcast’s second-cheapest tier is right up in the same neighborhood as T-Mobile. And you won’t consistently get 216 Mbps on T-Mobile either. Typical download speeds are well south of there, especially in areas that don’t have 5G coverage. I just did a T-Mobile speed test and got 35 Mbps down and 9 Mbps up on LTE which is far more typical. Tom’s substantially concurs on this, finding an average of 36/16 for T-Mobile, and Verizon the fastest at 53/18.
Even where I live the only other option is DSL. No Fios, no U-Verse, or other fiber offerings. My bill for TV and 200mbps Internet combined is the same as OP is paying for only internet.
20-300 hours/month of outages is far from a typical experience. 300 hours/month is 15 full days. Even if you typoed that and meant 30, that’s not common either.