I'm going to stab Comcast in the face...

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by Groves

The internet provider people hate the most is the internet provider they currently use.


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same is true for every water, electric, mobile phone, newspaper, gas or internet, tv company that said person has.

We have 2 internet options. Centurylink and Comcast. No one likes either one. So then what??? Love the bitching on Nextdoor-trainwreck. No one is ever happy.


Not complaining about groves.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Groves

The internet provider people hate the most is the internet provider they currently use.

Unfortunately, most people don't have choice for their internet provider.

With Spectrum, I'm getting 475 mbps. AT&T is offered in my area but it's only "up to" 25 mbps so that's not even an option.

I have a feeling that by the time there's fiber available in my area, I'll have long moved by then.

[lawrenceRaider]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Unfortunately, most people don't have choice for their internet provider.

With Spectrum, I'm getting 475 mbps. AT&T is offered in my area but it's only "up to" 25 mbps so that's not even an option.

I have a feeling that by the time there's fiber available in my area, I'll have long moved by then.

My happiest day (ISP wise) was when I canceled Cox after getting ATT fiber. Gigabit speeds and haven't had an outage in the nearly a year that we've had them.

Never any slow downs either.

[ChiefsCountry]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Unfortunately, most people don't have choice for their internet provider.

With Spectrum, I'm getting 475 mbps. AT&T is offered in my area but it's only "up to" 25 mbps so that's not even an option.

I have a feeling that by the time there's fiber available in my area, I'll have long moved by then.

Its crazy that I have gigabyte fiber internet in the Ozarks and you don't in LA.

[Frazod]

I have AT&T, and they suck, but I've had such bad experiences with Comcast in the past that I simply refuse to ever use them again.

[EPodolak]

I've had Cox for probably 20 years, only this year has there been a problem with regular outages. I get it, the pandemic has put demands on the providers like never before. Hoping if anything like this year happens again the lesson was learned how to keep people online.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by EPodolak

I've had Cox for probably 20 years, only this year has there been a problem with regular outages. I get it, the pandemic has put demands on the providers like never before. Hoping if anything like this year happens again the lesson was learned how to keep people online.

From my understanding, the existing internet nodes were not created to handle everyone in a specific area to be on the internet at the same exact time.

For example, we have 4 people at home using the internet everyday from 7am to 10pm, whereas normally, it's just one person most of the day.

Multiply that by hundreds of people in the same neighborhood and it causes outages. The only way to correct these outages is for the internet providers to build brand new nodes that can handle higher levels of traffic but that's a huge, costly expense.

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

From my understanding, the existing internet nodes were not created to handle everyone in a specific area to be on the internet at the same exact time.

For example, we have 4 people at home using the internet everyday from 7am to 10pm, whereas normally, it's just one person most of the day.

Multiply that by hundreds of people in the same neighborhood and it causes outages. The only way to correct these outages is for the internet providers to build brand new nodes that can handle higher levels of traffic but that's a huge, costly expense.

The internet and its providers were not ready for a pandemic