Spectrum Cable vs Frontier FiberOptic Internet Service?

[AKIron]

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.

[hitech]

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

[Eagler]

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

[Randy1]

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.

[DmonSlyr]

Getting my fiber installed right now 

[Vulcan]

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.

[HL117]

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.

[AKIron]

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.

[Eagler]

Always use my own router..

Port forwarding for ip cameras require it..

Eagler

[icepac]

Broadcomm chipsets > puma chipsets.

[Shuffler]

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.