What company do you use for your home internet service?

[happytobe@mastodon.social]

@pabloniusmonk Other. We have access to two that provide over 500mbps: xfinity and kinetic. Anything less and ads make it impossible to use. We use xfinity because kinetic has been notoriously unreliable locally.

[qurlyjoe@mstdn.social]

@pabloniusmonk
The city I live in runs its own broadband service. A couple nearby towns have copied our model for their own use. It took about 3 years after citizens voted for it to get the infrastructure built and about 2/3 of the town wired up. It’s not perfect but better than paying Comcast.
[edit] I get 10Gb service for internet, phone, and tv.

[social_recluse2@mastodon.social]

@pabloniusmonk Verizon/Fios

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@pabloniusmonk

Verizon offered a much lower price for 5G connectivity and I have to say for my particular location. It’s been fine.

[chancerubbage@mastodon.social]

@pabloniusmonk

One is often limited by what local laws have blessed as the other licensed broadband providers.

Choices usually boils down to one cable isp, one telco, and perhaps a sattelite or ‘5g’ cellular solution, all with their own issues.

[chancerubbage@mastodon.social]

@pabloniusmonk

Community City Fiber often falters as the it is a new business weak on customer service, billing, repair and maintenance issues on one hand, and the fact that the user base can’t give up live sports or traditional live TV enough to hire more city staff and contractors.

[tedchoward@mastodon.social]

@pabloniusmonk I’ve had AT&T Fiber for about a year now, and I’ve been satisfied with it. I switched from spectrum who charged more for worse service.

What’s been your issue?

[pabloniusmonk@mastodon.social]

@tedchoward https://mastodon.social/@pabloniusmonk/116228233230945373

[macquilter@toot.community]

@pabloniusmonk @qurlyjoe Recently changed to WeLink and get much better speed/reliability than the Cox connection we used to have.

[tedchoward@mastodon.social]

@pabloniusmonk yeah, that’s no good.

FWIW, we have AT&T Fiber 1G service. I just use their “gateway” box as a pass through. I have my own router and access points. I just tested the speed to my phone: 630Mbps.

[pabloniusmonk@mastodon.social]

@tedchoward Do you use a mesh network? Honestly I didn't even know you could bring your own router device to the gateway.

[tedchoward@mastodon.social]

@pabloniusmonk no mesh, I’ve got an Archer BE9300 WiFi router, and I have another wireless access point wired in at the other end of the house.

There was some config work I had to do to the AT&T thing to make it just pass through. I forget what I did. I did a lot of Reddit searches to figure it out.