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Simple modem and router reboot worked.

Then I opened all the windows and sliders in the house, changed all the air inside my home, cracked open a few beers, took down my suitcases and started to pack.

I’m almost outta here. Time for a much needed break from life

And the 1gb ATT fiber service is pretty kickasp. Just satin.

@Richard S wins with best tech advice.
 
I get outages during the day at home. The cable companies do their maintenance during the day in the residential areas
 
BPratt said:
I get outages during the day at home. The cable companies do their maintenance during the day in the residential areas
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Never had day time maintenance with any of the residential ISPs I've used in the last 30 years (Comcast, Frontier, Mediacom and a small local.) The daytime outages I've experienced are nearly almost always cable cuts.

Consumer firewall/routers are not known to be the most stable. OTOH, the small business appliance I'm running is several times as expensive, and it's also got it's own warts.
 
JKalchik said:
Never had day time maintenance with any of the residential ISPs I've used in the last 30 years (Comcast, Frontier, Mediacom and a small local.) The daytime outages I've experienced are nearly almost always cable cuts.

Consumer firewall/routers are not known to be the most stable. OTOH, the small business appliance I'm running is several times as expensive, and it's also got it's own warts.
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We have fancy commercial routers provided by work at home and the top speed package.

What is lacking is old infrastructure in my city. The cable company has exclusive rights and no real competition so no one is doing a complete overhaul to fibre
 
BPratt said:
The cable company has exclusive rights and no real competition so no one is doing a complete overhaul to fibre
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Unfortunately, more often the case than not. Here, we're rather spoiled in that we can subscribe to DSL (on the slow side,) broadband cable (with a lying <BEEEEP> provider,) or fiber. Every address in town has access to all 3. I'm utterly spoiled with the fiber provider, on the rare occasion I have to call in for support, the other end of the call has never been more than 100 miles away. And I've had the opportunity to talk to the ISP's president. Good folks, all around.
 
My new hood is all glass fiber. We had some issues at initial deployment and install. ATT wound up pulling a new line from my house to the service box down the block. That solved all the problems.

Fiber has been rock solid and speeds are incredible. Best service I’ve ever had at home and super glad to be divorced from the cablle company. I despised doing business with them.

And recently I kicked TMO to the curb for horrible customer service. ATT offered me a deal I just couldn’t refuse. So I moved my account to them in full.
 
JKalchik said:
Unfortunately, more often the case than not. Here, we're rather spoiled in that we can subscribe to DSL (on the slow side,) broadband cable (with a lying <BEEEEP> provider,) or fiber. Every address in town has access to all 3. I'm utterly spoiled with the fiber provider, on the rare occasion I have to call in for support, the other end of the call has never been more than 100 miles away. And I've had the opportunity to talk to the ISP's president. Good folks, all around.
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We had cable tv for at least 55 years which the surrounding towns did not. In order to get that the cable company was given exclusive rights. The utility poles run behind the houses in most places so the work to rework is costly.

I had DSL 25 years ago when I lived about a mile from the central switch. That was really fast at the time
 
Frontier finally pulled fiber to home here, even though the main leg to the central office has been under the sidewalk right in front of my house for years. I'm tempted to switch from Spectrum cable. Spectrum keeps telling me about the speed boosts they've given me, and yet I'm still stuck at 110-120 down. I know I am capable of more. The first night I powered up my self-owned modem I was getting 350+ down. Someone on the other end caught that and the next day they provisioned me at 100 down. The latest letter says they gave me 400 down at the same price but here I am.
I can't get Frontier to give me a bottom line, no promo, no hardware monthly price. Everything says $29.99 a month!!! but the fine print says for a one year promo. I don't need their modem or router or whatever else they try and throw in. I built my own router, all I need is an ONT with a copper port to plug into.
 
@MikeB, if you're going to stick w/ Spectrum, open a ticket and clearly tell the front line tech exactly what you posted about speeds. Don't expect too much, except maybe a home visit from a tech. GET THE TICKET NUMBER. Call the village/town/city office that handles franchising and open a complaint there. MediaCom here missed EVERY SINGLE TICKET RESOLUTION for years, and flat-out lied about it. The only way I could get traction was to complain through the village. I chewed out the MediaCom rep outside the village council chambers during the broadband contract renewal a few years ago, she tried parroting the same thing the front line techs said. I'm pretty sure that the entire council heard her getting the word.

Going with Frontier would make me a bit nervous, considering their bankruptcy issues.
 
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