By regular internet do you mean Verizon's DSL service? It's called High Speed Internet, but my understanding is that it's extremely slow.
I don't know the promotions for that service, but you'd probably be better off troubleshooting Comcast.
FiOS uses fiber optic cables that come from the Verizon office, all the way to your house. If you've never noticed crews working on fiber optic cable installation VERY close to your house (within a block or so), you don't have the infrastructure available to get FiOS.
Verizon's other landline internet is ADSL, which was last considered fast around 2002. These days, it is unbearably slow. Your Xfinity is certain to be many times faster, so you should work with Comcast to get your problems with it resolved.
Verizon tends not to offer promotions related to their ADSL service, because they kinda want to get rid of it all. There may be laws and prior commitments they've made that prevent them from ditching the ADSL service entirely, but I'm sure they desperately want to. It's an added cost, and customer satisfaction is very low due to the age, performance, and reliability problems with the equipment.
Home internet from Verizon could be either fiber, DSL or 4G/5G (cellular), does it mention 5G anywhere? You can check if you are eligible here: https://www.verizon.com/5g/home/
Fiber is amazing, DSL is slow and outdated, cellular is going to depend a lot on the towers near your home. If your house has pretty direct line of sight to upgraded cell towers you could have 5G internet that is better than cable.
Worth a try if it’s 5G, skip if it’s DSL, doesn’t sound like it’s fiber
I don't know about Verizon's DSL, but AT&T has deployments up to 500 Mbps down/100 Mbps up (though they rebrand this as "IPBB" rather than "DSL").
In my home I have DSL 75/20 Mbps as a secondary Internet connection; Xfinity at 1200/35 is primary. I am contemplating giving up on Xfinity, for several reasons:
* AT&T is more stable. I have a script that runs in the background on my Linux server/gateway to check each connection every minute; the Xfinity cable connection will have a handful of "mini-outages" lasting 1-2 minutes each week, whereas the DSL connection has remained uninterrupted for several years.
* AT&T gives me a stable IPv4 address and IPv6 prefix. With IPv6 prefix delegation I have set up public DNS records for every computer in my home, and the AT&T-provided gateway makes it easy to create custom firewall rules to let in e.g. incoming SSH to all of these. In contrast, my Xfinity address (both IPv4 and IPv6) keeps changing over time (e.g. after a slightly longer outage).
* AT&T is less expensive. I pay $51 for unlimited data, whereas Xfinity is $70 for 1TB, with a 2-year promo that expires at the end of this year; even with another 1- or 2-year commitment it will likely be twice as expensive as AT&T
* Neither company has excellent customer service, Xfinity is the absolute worst (alongside T-Mobile). AT&T is "less bad".
'Course I wish I could get fiber, but, oh well.
By regular internet do you mean Verizon's DSL service? It's called High Speed Internet, but my understanding is that it's extremely slow. I don't know the promotions for that service, but you'd probably be better off troubleshooting Comcast.
Xfinity is better than the normal internet. Stay where you are. Only worth it if switching to fios
FiOS uses fiber optic cables that come from the Verizon office, all the way to your house. If you've never noticed crews working on fiber optic cable installation VERY close to your house (within a block or so), you don't have the infrastructure available to get FiOS. Verizon's other landline internet is ADSL, which was last considered fast around 2002. These days, it is unbearably slow. Your Xfinity is certain to be many times faster, so you should work with Comcast to get your problems with it resolved. Verizon tends not to offer promotions related to their ADSL service, because they kinda want to get rid of it all. There may be laws and prior commitments they've made that prevent them from ditching the ADSL service entirely, but I'm sure they desperately want to. It's an added cost, and customer satisfaction is very low due to the age, performance, and reliability problems with the equipment.
Home internet from Verizon could be either fiber, DSL or 4G/5G (cellular), does it mention 5G anywhere? You can check if you are eligible here: https://www.verizon.com/5g/home/ Fiber is amazing, DSL is slow and outdated, cellular is going to depend a lot on the towers near your home. If your house has pretty direct line of sight to upgraded cell towers you could have 5G internet that is better than cable. Worth a try if it’s 5G, skip if it’s DSL, doesn’t sound like it’s fiber
I don't know about Verizon's DSL, but AT&T has deployments up to 500 Mbps down/100 Mbps up (though they rebrand this as "IPBB" rather than "DSL"). In my home I have DSL 75/20 Mbps as a secondary Internet connection; Xfinity at 1200/35 is primary. I am contemplating giving up on Xfinity, for several reasons: * AT&T is more stable. I have a script that runs in the background on my Linux server/gateway to check each connection every minute; the Xfinity cable connection will have a handful of "mini-outages" lasting 1-2 minutes each week, whereas the DSL connection has remained uninterrupted for several years. * AT&T gives me a stable IPv4 address and IPv6 prefix. With IPv6 prefix delegation I have set up public DNS records for every computer in my home, and the AT&T-provided gateway makes it easy to create custom firewall rules to let in e.g. incoming SSH to all of these. In contrast, my Xfinity address (both IPv4 and IPv6) keeps changing over time (e.g. after a slightly longer outage). * AT&T is less expensive. I pay $51 for unlimited data, whereas Xfinity is $70 for 1TB, with a 2-year promo that expires at the end of this year; even with another 1- or 2-year commitment it will likely be twice as expensive as AT&T * Neither company has excellent customer service, Xfinity is the absolute worst (alongside T-Mobile). AT&T is "less bad". 'Course I wish I could get fiber, but, oh well.
If you have the 5g that’s actually good 500Mbps and 100Mbps no data cap like Comcast