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Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

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Re: Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

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Post by jyrkesh »

linsomniac wrote: post #408
jyrkesh wrote: post #399

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in a combo CenturyLink / Comcast market, and it's AMAZING what competition between even just those two firms does to my offerings. Switched from Comcast's $90/mo gigabit with a 1 TB data cap and only 90 Mb/s upload to CenturyLink's $60/mo symmetric gigabit with no data cap. I have a contract-less "lifetime price guarantee", they did free install (which included running a fiber line from the pole to my house with…

I wonder why we are stuck with these options (in the town referenced in the post): 1gbps Comcast and 40mbps CenturyLink.

Lots and lots and lots of regional lobbying.

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Post by cdeutsch »

jyrkesh wrote: post #399
linsomniac wrote: post #269

CenturyLink, in particular, but also Comcast, has brought this upon themselves... They are doing everything they can to protect their existing infrastructure and do as little as possible to upgrade services. I'm thinking of back in '98 when QWest was rolling out DSL, the would only connect you to a central office. They refused to put DSLAMs in the pedestals, because if they did that they had to allow CLECs to do the…

I'm in a combo CenturyLink / Comcast market, and it's AMAZING what competition between even just those two firms does to my offerings. Switched from Comcast's $90/mo gigabit with a 1 TB data cap and only 90 Mb/s upload to CenturyLink's $60/mo symmetric gigabit with no data cap. I have a contract-less "lifetime price guarantee", they did free install (which included running a fiber line from the pole to my house with…

Make sure you do your speedtest to a server beyond CenturyLink.

My speeds were about that to the CenturyLink data center, but anything outside that was slower than Comcast 150 Mbps.

Which leads me to believe they don't have a fat enough pipe to the internet in my area.

Which was too bad, because the $60/mo price was a deal

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Post by robohoe »

hanklazard wrote: post #295
robohoe wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking of poor cable speeds, were your downstream/upstream signals poor? Did you have an upstream filter installed on your line by any chance? I too had a similar issue but a tech visit to disconnect a noise filter fixed it.

Hmm, I'm not familiar with that hardware so I certainly didn't install one. Rather than talk to them about troubleshooting, I took the more blunt approach: dump Comcast! (Hint: if you're moving from one big ISP to another, the new one will likely cover your termination fee)

Sadly not much choice in my municipality. Either Comcast or paltry DSL provided by ATT.

Re: Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

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Post by hanklazard »

hanklazard wrote: post #295
robohoe wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking of poor cable speeds, were your downstream/upstream signals poor? Did you have an upstream filter installed on your line by any chance? I too had a similar issue but a tech visit to disconnect a noise filter fixed it.

Hmm, I'm not familiar with that hardware so I certainly didn't install one. Rather than talk to them about troubleshooting, I took the more blunt approach: dump Comcast! (Hint: if you're moving from one big ISP to another, the new one will likely cover your termination fee)

I used to live in a building where Comcast payed for the ethernet wiring in the walls throughout the entire building when it was built. Needlesstosay, they were the only ISP option for all residents who lived there. With newer wireless ISPs, there may be some hope for situations like that and maybe for you.

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Post by djzidon »

godelmachine wrote: post #353
djzidon wrote: post #151

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Google - “Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj why your internet sucks”

Guess my work has this blocked due to restricted mode. Had to read the fine print
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