Cutting the Cord from Cable company

[Madeinhb]

If it delivers 50mbps for $60 per month, I would drop Comcast in a heartbeat. Sadly, it has not expanded far enough for me to consider.

You may want to call them and see if they already have any customers in your neighborhood. Then you can ask them about their experience.

I was really hoping for fiber at some point but that just doesn't seem to be coming either.

Fiber isn't coming to Thornton because, if I'm not mistaken, the city said the companies running Fiber would have to run it to everyone house in Thornton. And of course,Netherlands companies said no to that. At least I believe it was VZ from what I read.


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[izzy]

Centennial is getting fiber and I'm on the pre-order list. Given that they've started construction on the exact opposite side of the city that I live in I'm expecting to get service sometime in 2050.

[BladesNBarrels]

When I moved to a new house in Elizabeth, the promise was the latest and best technology.
Waited 9 months for lines to be laid for phone.
Copper.
I asked why we weren't getting fiber.
The answer was that they were using up all the old copper inventory before using fiber and to hell with any promises.
They had given me cell phones for the family and business, but none of the providers had cell service in our neighborhood.
I had to get in the car, drive to the top of a hill, and then Sprint would work with 1 bar.

[Gman]

Centennial is getting fiber and I'm on the pre-order list. Given that they've started construction on the exact opposite side of the city that I live in I'm expecting to get service sometime in 2050.

It'll all be 25G wireless by then. In other news, we'll also all glow in the dark.

[hurley842002]

Speaking of cutting the cord, we went with Sling, and are very happy so far, still figuring out what we want to do about internet, but we have all the programming we like to watch, for much less than the equivalent package would cost through Xfinity.

[Ah Pook]

I ditched the dish over 10 years ago. A lot of what y'all are talking about is new to me. I have a local wireless internet service and use a MacMini, hooked to a monitor and amp, for the entertainment center. Prime, Plex and Youtube are about all I use.

Have a friend that wants to ditch cable but still wants her channels. Easier the better. Are "smart TVs" a thing? She has Roku but I really don't know what that does.

[Gman]

Smart TVs are a thing, with a bunch of streaming services built-in. It's possible that she can get a number of local channels OTA.

[Grant H.]

Has anybody heard of or tried “WiFiHood”? $50/month for 50mbps. Microwave radio internet, no actual TV channels. Gotta provide your own router. Since I don’t do any gaming, I think this might be enough for us. Add an over-the-air antenna for local channels, probably all I need. Thoughts?

http://wifihood.com/plan/wifihood-home/

They are just another WISP, similar to Rise, Hill Top (who Rise just bought), etc.

They will likely work well until they get to a larger customer base, and then it will start to drop off. (Seen this cycle with several WISPs that have been around).

Century Link spent a few months updating my entire neighborhood with Fiber. They must not have gotten up to the nice part of Thornton yet.

Actual fiber to the home? Or just replacing the main backbones with fiber, but still copper to the home?

Fiber isn't coming to Thornton because, if I'm not mistaken, the city said the companies running Fiber would have to run it to everyone house in Thornton. And of course,Netherlands companies said no to that. At least I believe it was VZ from what I read.
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If that's the case, that Thornton said it would HAVE to include all homes, then that was a poor decision on the city's part.

FTTH is usually prohibitively expensive. Longmont got away with it because they are their own electric power utility, so they own all the power poles, and could string fiber along those.

The other problem that may be part of this is that opening up more and more cities with FTTH is creating a very different load on the existing backbones. I know guys that work for the company the feeds Longmont, and Longmont keeps asking for more bandwidth (not surprising with a city wide fiber network), and they are struggling to keep up.

[Grant H.]

I have had DSL for years, at my old house i was getting 12 megs and i could stream on two tv’s while my son played xbox online. Now i get 25 megs and we constantly have 2-3 tv’s streaming and 2 teenage boys playing online games, using a cheap DSL modem, a cisco 5506 and a good Ubiquitu AP. Never have buffering and the boys are yet to complain about lag. DSL is cheaper and way more reliable then comcast in most areas, i worked for them as a tech for 12 years and now i work for a company doing phone and IT work for businesses, we make a lot of money showing up when customers call only to tell them their modems are offline and they need to call comcast.

We have netflix and hulu now, used to use kodi. I just need to find a way to get Packers games this fall for my GF.

Cheaper? Yes.

More reliable? As you said, that depends on your area.

Longmont, Firestone, Frederick, Niwot, and Gunbarrel (all places I have current, direct data points on internet access) all have terrible DSL service. We were paying for the 12mbps plan on DSL and they could barely deliver 1mbps in Gunbarrel. Switched to Comcrap, and haven't had an issue since.

(Don't take this as a no-holds-barred endorsement of Comcrap, because they have their own major issues, but they are faster and more stable in those areas).

[Irving]

RE: Fiber in Thornton. It looked like they just upgraded the back bone up and down the street. I don't have Century Link, so I'm not sure if they bring Fiber directly to the house or not.