Recommendation for home wireless service in So Cal?

I need to purchase wireless internet service for new home in Southern California. I currently use ATT DSL. After briefly switching to ATT Uverse on advice of ATT customer service when I wanted to upgrade to faster service and old airport apparently stopped working correctly, it was a disaster. (There is a separate conversation on the Apple Forum about the experience.) After much hassle I switched back to ATT DSL and bought a new airport. Things have worked fine since, although my son still thinks it takes too long to download movies. We are a Big Mac household - iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone 5, two MacBook Airs, iTouch - and an oddball Droid phone. New home currently uses Verizon phone and internet service through Time Warner (I'm choosing to go with Direct TV).
So my questions - Does Verizon wireless internet service work well with a household full of Macs? I prefer to use an Airport. Is there a modem and/or router that Verizon uses that is good or bad? Fios or DSL? (I had a horrible experience with the modem/router with the Uverse disaster.) Has the modem/router/Mac connection improved with Uverse? Or should I just stick with what I know works for me - ATT DSL even though its not the fastest speed?
I'm not technologically sophisticated (this is probably obvious), so would appreciate replies in plain English. Thanks!

DSL is yesterday's technology:
BEST is Verizon FIOS (or ATT Uverse) depending if either has fiberoptic cable to your door (call each to find out; they will know from your address). Be careful, ATT is now calling their non-fiberoptic service Uverse; so ask about fiberoptic!
I use Time-Warner Internet at its fastest consumer speed. I am currently uploading a 16GB file to an associate in UK and it will take 18 hours (remember upload is always much slower than download). I think my service is 20 or 30 down and 1 up; at about $40/month. I have multiple routers to connect it to many Macs, iPhones, AppleTVs, home entertainment systems, etc.
Stay away from satellite; it is ONLY for internet service to the boonies...
FYI: I use DirecTV (and a roof-top antenna) for TV and T-Mobile for both VoIP at home and iPhone 5. Everyone HATES the Time-Warner cable service due to their monopoly in So. Cal.
T-Mobile has best monthly rates in So. Cal for iPhone 5 AND you can purchase additional data for tethering (using your iPhone as a WiFi HotSpot or with BlueTooth, as I use it at an off-line office that has no internet service). AND you can talk and internet at the SAME TIME, unlike Verizon which on the iPhone is one or the other.
Soon T-Mobile will implement their UMA/WiFi Calling feature for the iPhone; already implemented on Blackberry, Android and other phones. This allows FULL T-Mobile talk and text coverage ANYWHERE in the world where you have access to WiFi. I use it with my Blackberry on every trip to London or at my girlfriend's house in the hills above Santa Cruz by swapping the SIMM card, now with micro-SIMM adapter.

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Job for [email protected] failed. See 'systemctl status [email protected]' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
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-- Logs begin at Sun 2014-03-16 14:34:24 GMT, end at Wed 2014-03-19 11:24:47 GMT. --
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-- Defined-By: systemd
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03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 07)
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02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8179] (rev 01)
If there is anything more I can provide I would happily do it, I really need the wireless to work under this laptop. I know it works, I have had it working under Arch and it works under Ubuntu no problem. I am not sure if it is a driver problem, or if it's a problem with netctl. It looks more like a problem with netctl as after netctl updated it started working, and after a reboot it broke again.
Thanks so very much everyone,
Bacondrinker
Last edited by bacondrinker (2014-03-19 13:47:15)

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