Fiber Optic Internet Service

Frontier is laying fiber thru my hood this morning. All we've had until now is line of sight wireless. Good day I get 50mbps, but its spotty.
Frontier packages start at 500mbps up/down for 50mo, and 900mbps up/down for 70mo.

Gonna be nice to have fast internet.

We don't have fiber in my area. They stopped the line 10 miles north of me saying it was too expensive. That was FIOS. All we have is Comcast or Dish.

I think they are laying it out there because of the future growth coming. Nothing but empty farm fields around us thats being bought up and developed. So laying fiber instead of copper probably makes sense to them.

Our power company co-op is running a ~300 mile fiber backbone for their equipment. Has extra capacity for residential ISP. We recently found out they are partnering with a local ISP to be the provider. The fiber line is going down our road. Hopefully our neighborhood will get some kind of node to tap into.

We cut the cut the cord and Directv - now just streaming. Currently using the local cable provider's fastest connection for our location. It's $100/mo for 940Mbps down and 35Mbps up but they also limit data to 1T bytes per month. There are nominal fee options for an extra 250M bytes/mo, 500M bytes/mo, or unlimited.

Internet service is getting to be a commodity with faster wireless speeds and more available wireless options so the cable companies are hoping to lock you in.

I plan to ditch Dish Network when I get the fiber access too.

They are supposed to install the service in my house at some point before noon today. I'll post speedtest results afterward.

It will be interesting to see how fast it really is. If had decent cable I would drop my TV package and just stream everything.

We are still stuck hot spotting from T-mobile.
Has improved but still not great or consistent.

TheQuig wrote:

It will be interesting to see how fast it really is. If had decent cable I would drop my TV package and just stream everything.

Thats my plan.
The are installing the Amazon eero 6 Pro wireless mesh system along with the service too. Going to be interesting to see how that performs too.

Diesel Dan wrote:

We are still stuck hot spotting from T-mobile.
Has improved but still not great or consistent.

Current wireless internet I have is basically 4GLte cell. Its been decent. Not great, but better than nothing

From my Samsung S21

From my PC. Both wireless to the router

On the router itself

You have to be happy with that speed.

First test on the PC maxed out at 30Mbps...then I remembered I ordered a new wireless network card for it.
Tore it down, installed that card and its running fast now.
Hoping I've seen the last "buffering" for streaming shows on the TV. Can't imagine that happening at these speeds.

We stream everything here. But between all the streaming services Im paying about the same as when I had cable.

It's getting to the point that some streaming service is underwhelming while the price keeps rising. It's probably time for these guys to get the message.

I'm considering cutting Netflix as I'm noticing more and more poorly made foreign made movies with dubbed over audio. I get that they need to grow the business abroad but the acting and story lines are pretty awful. I figure I could always turn service back on for a couple of months if a good series starts a new season etc.

And the NHL really botched coverage for local teams this year. The only way we could watch the local team was to subscribe to at least 3 different streaming services (ESPN+, youtube TV,  and a new local sports streamer via Bally's Sports). We're using 2 of the 3 but otherwise no thanks and on top of that we pulled back from supporting in-person home hockey games.

Im going to reevaluate Netflix with the wife and kid again. And also Amazon Prime with yet another price increase.

Im already ditching DirecTV Stream since Im losing my ATT discount since we sold off part of DTV. I was getting it all for $10 a month but now its reg pricing and no way Im paying that much for something I havent even even looked at for probably 2 years. My wife uses it some but its gone!