We finally have fiber optic internet

[rfuerst911sc]

My wife and I moved to our retirement house in the mountains 7 years ago . Loved everything about it except the internet . We had one provider and one option of DSL . Well today that all changed , yep our fiber optic was installed this morning . Previous DSL plan was for 25 mbps and speed tests rarely hit 17 and usually less . We are the end of the line for the switching station .

New plan is 300 mbps and I just ran a speed test and hit a little over 271 !!! Wow what an improvement . Windstream started installing the lines about 2 years ago and now are finally hooking up to houses . We do everything via internet - TV streaming , wifi phone and internet access . It's a great day

[Rusty Heap]

Starlink for me, no other option.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc

My wife and I moved to our retirement house in the mountains 7 years ago . Loved everything about it except the internet . We had one provider and one option of DSL . Well today that all changed , yep our fiber optic was installed this morning . Previous DSL plan was for 25 mbps and speed tests rarely hit 17 and usually less . We are the end of the line for the switching station .

New plan is 300 mbps and I just ran a speed test and hit a little over 271 !!! Wow what an improvement . Windstream started installing the lines about 2 years ago and now are finally hooking up to houses . We do everything via internet - TV streaming , wifi phone and internet access . It's a great day

Nice! We had someone come through and install fiber. It's run to the box on the road in front of our house. I was very excited that we may eventually have fiber-based Internet (using T-mobile 5G now, which is actually excellent 99.9% of the time). Then I heard that the fiber was installed by "Frontier" and the folks in the local area FB group are constantly saying "is Frontier down again?" and "I need to switch providers because Frontier is always down." so I'm less excited. I'm more likely to buy an antenna to improve our connectivity (usually 50-300mb down and 1-10mb up). Something is up since this morning. I'm getting <5mb down and less up.

Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

Starlink for me, no other option.

I wish I'd opted in for SL when they came out in this area, but I couldn't risk it because the disclaimer "we are in beta period and connectivity may go down at any time" and since I'm working from home, I couldn't risk that.

[GH85Carrera]

AT&T came through our neighborhood. Fiber optic is now in my front yard. The salesman came by to offer their plans. In the end, the only difference would be my upload speed. Right now I get 900 Mb per second upload and only 40 up.

To get the same premium channels and fast internet AT&T was going to cost about $20 per month more. I just stuck with Cox Cable. They take car of me, and it pretty much works all the time.

[cabmandone]

Imagine how fast you're gonna be able to buy stuff on Amazon now!

Kong is gonna get tricked out!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

AT&T came through our neighborhood. Fiber optic is now in my front yard. The salesman came by to offer their plans. In the end, the only difference would be my upload speed. Right now I get 900 Mb per second upload and only 40 up.

To get the same premium channels and fast internet AT&T was going to cost about $20 per month more. I just stuck with Cox Cable. They take car of me, and it pretty much works all the time.

If what you've got is reliable and fast enough, then there's no need to change. I thought a fiber connection would be more reliable and faster, but honestly, T-mobile 5G is pretty reliable (far more reliable than some of the other providers in the area). And most of the time, it's plenty fast. I finally tried to call T-Mo cust svc. They had an automated message when I rang through, "we have an issue in your area. We are working on it. We expect to have it fixed w/in 12 hours, your service in important, blah, blah, blah."

[rfuerst911sc]

Originally Posted by cabmandone

Imagine how fast you're gonna be able to buy stuff on Amazon now!

Kong is gonna get tricked out!

Damn that was funny . Thanks for that

[oldE]

A few years ago I got a call from someone at Aliant suggesting we upgrade to fiber. (We use cel phones and use a dish to pick up internet signal from a tower two miles away. )
I suggested her company didn't really want us as a customer and when she asked why, I advised her their fiber cable ended 4 kilometers up the road plus our driveway was about 1/3 of a kilometer long. They would be a long while getting their money back.

Best
Les

[Chocaholic]

Got fiber here two weeks ago fro Cspire. I’m on daily Teams meetings for work and it’s been a dramatic improvement. We’ve got 500 mb/s. No more freeze-ups during conversations and movement is actually fluid and not like robots. So far so good. Was happy to cancel AT&T.

[Rusty Heap]

dear pronhub, 4k please.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

dear pronhub, 4k please.

ROFLMAO!

Now you can download porn faster than you can watch it!

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by masraum

ROFLMAO!

Now you can download porn faster than you can watch it!

And no buffering when things get good!

[oldE]

Buffering? Is that what kids are calling it these days?

Best
Les

[greglepore]

Our rural electric coop did fiber in a partnership for us last year-thank god, as we have no cell service to speak of and 6 (yes 6) mb dsl up to that point. Its reliable as all get out, except during dove season here, when the occasional yahoo shoots the line b/c the doves perch on it. Federal offense and all, and they're publicizing it.
Best part was that they did my install at no cost-bored in from the road almost a 10th of a mile. Did manage to pierce my well line in the process-its poly and private so the one call folks didn't find/mark it and we didn't know "exactly" where it was. In fairness, its one inch poly and you'd have to have terrible luck to bullsye it. But the crew was great, stayed for 3 hrs on a firday digging by hand to find and repair the cut (great Mexican crew). Luckily had a case of Modelo left here from my kids so was at least able to share that.

[Chocaholic]

Originally Posted by oldE

Buffering? Is that what kids are calling it these days?

Best
Les

LOL! Needed a morning chuckle...thanks!

[911boost]

How is the SL Rusty? I am thinking of getting it for my RV.

And you guys beat me to the pron comments.

[Rusty Heap]

Had SL about a year now after firing Dish Network and my land line phone.

SL is simply fast internet.

You'll need a TV package like Prime, Paramount+, and/or a smart TV like my Samsung that has local TV stations on it too through Prime.

Average SL down is 65-85 mbps true. Can get down to 15-20 during peak hours, also seen 200-250+ peaks at times.

For $120 a month. SL works for me. Best Buy for hardware. Before buying it, download the SL app to your phone, and it scans the Overhead and Horizon to check for obstructions to satellite coverage.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by cabmandone

Imagine how fast you're gonna be able to buy stuff on Amazon now!

Kong is gonna get tricked out!

I remember when my computer geeks and I all watched as I download a 1 MB file is "only" 12 minutes and we were all wowed about how fast that was!

Now I download 30 GB files in short order. I download 232 GB of data in one day. It was 77 different files, aerial photos of every county in Oklahoma. It took longer to figure out the naming convention they used and to rename them to the county names than it did to download them all.

[911boost]

Awesome, thank you!

[rfuerst911sc]

Just did another speed test . This time 225 down and 287 up . I am very happy with the results vs the old DSL . We have out of town family here so potentially 5 phones doing whatever and a TV or two running . I expect zero issues .