that shared line is a crock of shit. In the 4 years I have had adelphia i never noticed a speed drop, never. In theory, it should slow down as more people get on, but it never has for me.
My adelphia internet is a good 200-500kbps faster than both my brother’s and dad’s comcast cable internet. From a good internet server I usually download around 800k-1.3mbps.
I have had very good luck with my internet service. I have never had an outage more than a few minutes, and have only had 2-3 that I can think of in 4 years. And the speed is pretty damn good. The internet seems very slow when I goto my parents house and use their shitty ass comcast internet.
I have also heard very good things about comcast and fios, which is why I said it is a toss up. I would most definately switch to fios if adelphia switches to comcast, i’m not a big fan of comcast. My uncle and friend love their new fios and I never heard anything bad about it yet.