It used to work a lot better, but Verizon keeps on hitting me to take their FiOS with VOIP, offering all kinds of deals, and making my current internet speed throttled, when I know I used to get it to show movies reasonably well.
The reason? Verizon wants to roll up their copper and never replace or maintain it, IMHO. If you do go to FiOS or to a local wired cable TV/Internet/VOIP, they will never give you your land line back.
The reason I keep my land line is that they supply their own voltage for it, whereas if your electricity depends on the power company, and it goes down, so does your phone in case you need it for an emergency response. They say, "Well, you can have a cell phone, or/and back up your VOIP with a battery supply." But, FRiend, the service is only as good as the battery lasts, and if it hasn't recently been charged, you are just SOL, which you should not be under their charter to keep the copper lines active and working despite catastrophes.
I do have a cellular phone, but it was given to me by my daughter and is on her family plan.
be advised if you are not on a copper pair straight out of the CO you are being feed by something with a battery back up and if your local power goes out and that unit is on the same leg as you which it probably is, its power is going out too and it will be on battery back up which will eventually fail.
If that unit doesn’t feed a muni or hospital forget them dragging a gen out there.
I was thinking of switching back - - I hope you're wrong on this one.
That's why we didn't want to switch over. Out here in the country, we wanted different means of communication but the cost was getting ridiculous to maintain so many different devices. Food and heat won out.