buckeyefarmer
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I just signed up for 300Mbps fiber at $40 month. Could get 1.2Gbps for $65
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Cool. Two different solutions for two different needs.
ultrarunner
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Wow… not seeing these kind of deals unless tied to a low income program…
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My Frontier fiber continues to work fine (500M/500M) and costs only $45/mo. I am just a few miles from town, but it has been a long battle to get decent internet up here in the mountains. Plus the VZ acquisition of FTR so far seems to be a good thing.
buckeyefarmer
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They literally circled my house putting up fiber. On telephone poles along the front and 1 side, then behind me on electric poles than meet where it’s on the telephone poles down from my neighbor. They put a big box with equipment on my neighbor.
They had other options, like up to 8 Gbps.
buckeyefarmer
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They had lots of speed / price options. I’ll run both for awhile, then decide what to do with Starlink
ponytug
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Personally, if you need the internet connection, e.g. work from home or emergency calling, I'd keep Starlink or something on hot standby. I think fiber is great, but based on long experience with fiber, it does seem to attract accidents and interruptions, resulting in outages. YMMV.
All the best, Peter
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Before we moved from our old place, we did the Line-of-site radio, then an AT&T brick, then Starlink and finally fiber was installed 2 months before we moved.
We moved to our new place and the previous owners had a 60' antenna with NextLink Line-of-site. So, we signed on with Next Link. It's awful and buffers every few minutes for both streaming and internet. It really irks me, because I was with the technicians in the attic and when they had the home base monitor the connection, they said it was sporadic and to change their patch cord. Apparently, they never resolved it but said it works and left.
As much as an improvement Starlink was over LOS and cell, fiber is the ultimate answer. Tomorrow, I have NorTex Communications coming out to look at connecting fiber. I have a box at my driveway and my neighbor, further down the lane has it. They're coming out to map the 600-700' it will take to get it from that box to the house and give me a price. Apparently, it's something that's negotiable. Any idea what a reasonable installation cost is? My thoughts are that my cost should be what the actual cost is from the contractor, no markup from NorTex. NorTex should be making their money on the internet service.
We moved to our new place and the previous owners had a 60' antenna with NextLink Line-of-site. So, we signed on with Next Link. It's awful and buffers every few minutes for both streaming and internet. It really irks me, because I was with the technicians in the attic and when they had the home base monitor the connection, they said it was sporadic and to change their patch cord. Apparently, they never resolved it but said it works and left.
As much as an improvement Starlink was over LOS and cell, fiber is the ultimate answer. Tomorrow, I have NorTex Communications coming out to look at connecting fiber. I have a box at my driveway and my neighbor, further down the lane has it. They're coming out to map the 600-700' it will take to get it from that box to the house and give me a price. Apparently, it's something that's negotiable. Any idea what a reasonable installation cost is? My thoughts are that my cost should be what the actual cost is from the contractor, no markup from NorTex. NorTex should be making their money on the internet service.
WM75Guy
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I would hold out for free, the cable is probably the most expensive part. I didn't pay anything for Spectrum to lay down 2 fiber cables to the house and shop, 800' - 900' of cable each. The Spectrum techs laid it on the ground, terminated it in a box on the outside wall, ran fiber through the wall, mounted a modem inside each building, and connected the modems. A contractor came out a few days later and buried the cables about 6" down with a walk behind vibrating plow. I already had 2 Cat 5e cables to plug into the modem in the house to run internet and phone signals to my utility closet. In the shop I sat the mesh router and the wireless phone base on a shelf and plugged them into the modem.
