Ethernet is the free lunch.....?

brad225

brad225

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My wife received a call from Frontier our internet carrier. We have had fiber since 2005 when it was owned by Verizon.
They said they were offering a new upgrade.
Their offer was to upgrade us from 500MBS to 1000MBS.
Now the lunch part. The offer is to upgrade to 1 Gig for $5 less per month and you receive your first month of service for free.
So, for $65 a month they will give you 1 Gig.

I have seen other companies offering speed increases so, I guess Frontier is trying to assure customer retention.

If you have Frontier you might want to call and see if they will upgrade your service.

I will keep you updated if they actually do the upgrade.
 
I am very disatisfied with their 1G service. My wired computer rarely gets over 400MB upload speeds and 300+ downloads when tested. Frontier ignores my calls for remedy. Buyer beware.
 
Cincy2 said:
I am very disatisfied with their 1G service. My wired computer rarely gets over 400MB upload speeds and 300+ downloads when tested. Frontier ignores my calls for remedy. Buyer beware.
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Hi - not saying you don't have an issue but I learned something from the tech when they installed my fiber:

They said the speed guarantee only applies at the point the wire comes into the house and the router is hooked up. He showed me how at that point I was getting the speed I paid for, but when wired to other rooms in the house I lost a good amount of speed.

He also said the more stuff you have hooked up -even if not turned on - all leech speed and will slow down dramatically. In my case with everything I have hooked up I end up at 400-500mbs in real life vs the 2Gbs that is coming into the wall.

I'm not saying you don't have an issue - just sharing what I learned that was interesting.
 
Hi Cincy
Our wireless speed is usually just under 500. I have not checked wired in a long time. Definitely before we went to 500.
If our speed doesn't increase, I can live with what we have.
Only changing to 1000 as it is cheaper and one month free.
 
Home broadband service is a shared media. This is why ISP can offer it at such a good price. If you are looking for a dedicated 1 Gbps service it will cost you a lot more than $65 a month.

Now I wish I had the option of 1 Gbps for $65 a month. Very nice.
 
I remember the old days of fiber. My wife and I moved from Maine to Florida in 1985.
My brother is a commercial photographer in Maine. He wanted to bring fiber to his studio in Portland in about 2000.
It was on the pole outside his studio and would be a run of about 30 yards to be in the building.
At that time the provider wanted $20,000 just to bring it those 30 yards.

In 2005 when we moved from Ft. Myers to just north of Tampa my wife called to have phone and cable activated. Version asked if we wanted fiber for the phone and internet only? From the road connection box to the house was almost 1/2 mile run. She asked what the cost would be and we were told $0 for the underground run. We laughed and said OK.

A year later they started offering video service but needed to run a second underground fiber cable. They weren't allowed to put video and ethernet/phone on the same cable at that time. They said it was illegal to combine them. Again no charge for the run of fiber.

Over the 19 years we have been on the property they have run fiber 10 times at no cost. Go figure.
 
brad225 said:
I remember the old days of fiber. My wife and I moved from Maine to Florida in 1985.
My brother is a commercial photographer in Maine. He wanted to bring fiber to his studio in Portland in about 2000.
It was on the pole outside his studio and would be a run of about 30 yards to be in the building.
At that time the provider wanted $20,000 just to bring it those 30 yards.

In 2005 when we moved from Ft. Myers to just north of Tampa my wife called to have phone and cable activated. Version asked if we wanted fiber for the phone and internet only? From the road connection box to the house was almost 1/2 mile run. She asked what the cost would be and we were told $0 for the underground run. We laughed and said OK.

A year later they started offering video service but needed to run a second underground fiber cable. They weren't allowed to put video and ethernet/phone on the same cable at that time. They said it was illegal to combine them. Again no charge for the run of fiber.

Over the 19 years we have been on the property they have run fiber 10 times at no cost. Go figure.
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They get paid. Perhaps not by you directly, but users and taxpayers pay in one way or another.
There is no free lunch when dealing with Utilities companies.
 
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