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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Gooss on November 06, 2024, 01:46:50 PM
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Friends,
What is your opinion of Spectrum cable vs Frontier FiberOptics?
My block of a suburb of LA was the last to get Frontier FiberOptics. I was waiting so long for FIOS that Frontier changed the branding. I have a sample of two friends who had nothing but problems with FIOS and I am disinclined to consider switching to Frontier. My Spectrum 1 Gig is working fine.
If it's not broken, why fix it?
If all y'all think Frontier is vastly superior, I'll reconsider.
Thanks for your assistance.
Gooss
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Here in Texas, Frontier is known as the worst fiber company there is.
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I have Spectrum. It's rock solid. I almost never have issues with it, unless the zombie horde tries steeling the wire from the junction boxes. Then it's usually down for the most part of the day. Not really Spectrum's fault.
:salute
Sik
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Cut the cord. Sling, netflix
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Cut the cord. Sling, netflix
He still needs internet.
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Here in Texas, Frontier is known as the worst fiber company there is.
I switched from Sparklight to Frontier a while back. Wife complained about the streaming music dropping periodically. Found I was dropping pings to the internal interface of the Sagemcom router they provided. They sent me another. Same thing. Bought my own other brand and no more problems.
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I switched from Sparklight to Frontier a while back. Wife complained about the streaming music dropping periodically. Found I was dropping pings to the internal interface of the Sagemcom router they provided. They sent me another. Same thing. Bought my own other brand and no more problems.
I actually have Xfinity. EZEE Fiber is installing in our area now. I presigned with them. As soon as they go hot, my home will be on fiber.
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I have a fiber to coax convertor in the garage. Then a cable modem in the house connected to what was the Sagemcom router. This was all Frontier installed/supplied. I never would have suspected the Sagemcom itself were it not for all the other equipment. When more than one computer and ethernet cable connected directly drops pings to the internal interface it can only be that device. And it was.
(https://i.postimg.cc/ts6fQwfm/fiber.png) (https://postimg.cc/ts6fQwfm)
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There's little point in us having 2Gbps up/dn since it's just the two us. Don't have any 2Gbps switches or adapters. It was the same price we were paying Sparklight for half that though so I said why not.
I already had a couple of these except they had only a 1 Gbps port so I added this one. Works great. No more intermittent loss.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B8BBRVVV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
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They recently installed Fiber and I just ordered At&t fiber and having installed next week. Its almost half the price of what I'm paying xfinity for 500gps
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I just switched back from fiber to Cable here in GA after the hurricane tour up the fiber, pole mounted network.
Interesting the cable company recently dropped all TV stuff. It is now only internet.
Both fiber and cable offer 1 gig service. Both are fast to the local network hub. The real question though is routing of the signal leaving the local network. That can be a crap shoot.
Cable seems to be a bit more stable, but fiber is a few ms faster to AH than cable.
I know this is not LA stuff but the idea here is in terms of technology, cable and fiber are pretty close in speed. How dependable the company is really the question.
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I just switched back from fiber to Cable here in GA after the hurricane tour up the fiber, pole mounted network.
Interesting the cable company recently dropped all TV stuff. It is now only internet.
Both fiber and cable offer 1 gig service. Both are fast to the local network hub. The real question though is routing of the signal leaving the local network. That can be a crap shoot.
Cable seems to be a bit more stable, but fiber is a few ms faster to AH than cable.
I know this is not LA stuff but the idea here is in terms of technology, cable and fiber are pretty close in speed. How dependable the company is really the question.
With cable, your upload will be much slower. Not necessarily bad, but slower. With fiber, your upload and download are usually about the same.
EZEE offers 1 gig, 2 gig, 5 gig, and 8 gig. From $69 to $119.
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We just switched from Spectrum to Frontier, saved up $60.00 a month with faster download and upload. So far very happy with it.
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All the cable companies are headed to data only meaning you watch your TV by streaming to a Xumo, Roku, firestick, or sling.
When the other foot drops, you will likely be required to pay for "tv service" so your bills will end up what they were soon enough.
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Heard frontier service is horrible
500gb service from spectrum .. no complaints
Dropped their cell service as we had to go consumer cellular for service in country around the in laws..
Dropped their video services and went youtube tv...saving $$$ with both of those moves
Eagler
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Quality of service will vary from location to location with any provider and you're going to hear complaints about all of them. If you have a choice of providers read reviews from your local area.
"next door" is probably is a good source for that. Keep in mind that some people may have problems with their computers/wireless that have nothing to do with the quality of service provided.
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500gb service from spectrum .. no complaints
You mean 500mb?
You have been playing threw frontier for the last 9 years, when they purchased it from verizon. Now Verizon just purchased it back in the last few months.
HiTech
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You mean 500mb?
You have been playing threw frontier for the last 9 years, when they purchased it from verizon. Now Verizon just purchased it back in the last few months.
HiTech
Yes 500 mb..
If it's gone back to Verizon it might have gotten better..original FIOS was stiff competition to our coaxial systems before the days of fiber nodes..
Once they sold out to frontier and got out of video only offering yttv the customers stated coming back with customer service complaints of them
Eagler
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With cable, your upload will be much slower. Not necessarily bad, but slower. With fiber, your upload and download are usually about the same.
EZEE offers 1 gig, 2 gig, 5 gig, and 8 gig. From $69 to $119.
Oddly enough, uploads on fiber were not as fast as the cable. In the beginning conexon was posting very fast uploads but that changed not long after they bult our rural network. They blame it on problems in atlanta.
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Getting my fiber installed right now :banana:
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With cable, your upload will be much slower. Not necessarily bad, but slower. With fiber, your upload and download are usually about the same.
Cable typically used to be contested media. ie you shared the bandwidth to your local gateway/pop with your neighbours, whereas fibre is contested to your gateway/pop.
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I actually have Xfinity. EZEE Fiber is installing in our area now. I presigned with them. As soon as they go hot, my home will be on fiber.
EZEE is installing in our neighborhood currently as well, if they run it like they are managing the install I will wait for the testers ( my neighbors ) to try it out first, since they have hit a water line on just about every street for the past two weeks.
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Did I mention I went through two Sagemcom routers (with a Frontier brand) that were periodically stopping my pings to the internal interface? Yeah, I mentioned that. I can guess why if that was by design but it seems more likely it is not intentional. Either way since I replaced the router with my own device I haven't lost a single ping in many days.
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Always use my own router..
Port forwarding for ip cameras require it..
Eagler
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Broadcomm chipsets > puma chipsets.
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EZEE is installing in our neighborhood currently as well, if they run it like they are managing the install I will wait for the testers ( my neighbors ) to try it out first, since they have hit a water line on just about every street for the past two weeks.
They had hit waterlines twice in our neighborhood. The water company marked the lines..... however, they did not mark them correctly. It was not the fiber company's fault here.