Factors
Download / upload speeds and price are usually what people consider and is what ISPs use in marketing. However, there are other factors that are much more important especially if you’re a power user.
- Download / upload caps
- Uptime and stability
- Throttling for certain types of traffic like BitTorrent
- Routing and peering for better speeds for international sites
- Whether carrier grade NAT is used, causes issues if you want to port forward to access services on your local network from the outside since you won’t have a public IP
- Static or dynamic IP, some ISPs will either give you a static IP or offer that feature as a paid add-on
- IPV6 support: how many prefixes get allocated for your use on the LAN and the WAN prefix, whether WAN and LAN routes work