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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 58,280
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They installed fiber to the telco box at the front of our home a year or so ago. I believe it was for "Frontier", but there are a bunch of providers that are similar. It will depend upon who the provider is that paid for the fiber to be run, I'm sure, at least initially.
In my area, the area FB groups seem to be constantly complaining about outages with Frontier. But that may just be that the infrastructure or area near them sucks, not that it's an issue with the whole company. We haven't heard or received anything from them saying "we've got fiber to your home, do you want it?". I assume the fiber is laid, but the infrastructure that uses it isn't in place yet.
We moved here Mar 2021, and have had T-mobile Internet over 5G since then (well, started at 4G and now is 5G). Originally I used a commercial SOHO style device, but after the first year or two we switched to using one of the T-mobile Home Internet devices. I work from home and rarely have issues. We stream TV, sometimes to 2 devices and don't usually have any issues. I'm happy with the service. I believe most cell providers have something similar. We're paying $50/mo and getting anywhere from 100-400mbps down (usually around 200-250) (only a few mbps upload, but that's not really important for most folks unless you're backing everything up to the cloud or Glenn).
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Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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