Frontier 500/500 @ 39.99?!?!?!?!!?

[yellowsulphur]

I should be getting around 62.5MBps up and down tomorrow morning.

Hello Pr0nhub! Hello ISOs.

Sorta jealous, 110/4 MBps, from Astound.

[the86d]

Before I bought or rented any home, since FiOS came out, I made sure that was avail. at the residence, as I KNEW speeds like this were eventually coming...

It's En route, but for now... asymmetrical...?

BUT WAIT...THERE's MOAR...
I had to back it down to my prior speed as the goober on the phone said that my ONT supported 500/500, and he was wrong, causing downed service for incompatibility for like a day, 4 calls in, and finally I got a guy who knows his job and figured it out, going above and beyond! 1st guy didn't give a crap, had no clue what he was doing and blamed my router. I got hung-up on for calls 2&3... Had to tether to the phone's WiFi for that day...

The newer ONT is installed, and I can switch to 500/500, but apparently we aren't done yet...
BUT WAIT, THERE'S EVEN MOAR-MOAR:
Somehow (maybe for my troubles?) I got new customer pricing @$39.99/month for 500/500, and 49.99/month after the first year... when I called to make the switch back up, w/the ONT compatibility no longer an issue.


I am finally moving up in the world, with a hell-of-a-price to boot!!!
I WAS supposed to pay $10 MOAR/month, but ended up SAVING $347.88 the 1st year, and $227.88 the subsequent years (because of their screw up?)... for 500/500 Mbps,
& oh, PLUS TAXES!!!

Time to feed that reloading press!!!

[Mute]

You should be getting better download speeds.

[the86d]

You should be getting better download speeds.

Agreed, and it looks like they flipped the switch fully today after I left for work...
and THIS is close enough for the girls I went out with...



EDIT: I just downloaded a 2.5GB Knoppix 6.1 ISO @ >40MBytes/Sec.

Capped at about 54-55MByes/Sec, then creeped back down to about 40MB/sec... sustained.

A torrent of the same ISO capped at about 45MB/sec, sustained at about 44MB/sec.

[Mute]

Agreed, and it looks like they flipped the switch fully today after I left for work...
and THIS is close enough for the girls I went out with...



EDIT: I just downloaded a 2.5GB Knoppix 6.1 ISO @ >40MBytes/Sec.

Capped at about 54-55MByes/Sec, then creeped back down to about 40MB/sec... sustained.

A torrent of the same ISO capped at about 45MB/sec, sustained at about 44MB/sec.

Very cool. That's more like it.

[Bumslie]

that $10 monthly 'router fee' really irks me. Not to mention all the other crap fees they tack on.

[the86d]

that $10 monthly 'router fee' really irks me. Not to mention all the other crap fees they tack on.

Shouldn't be an issues, as I am using my own, and if I see this fee on my first bill, I cloned the Mac on my new router to prevent BS...

$40/MONTH isn't bad for 500/500... Nor is the 50/month next year...

[Bumslie]

Shouldn't be an issues, as I am using my own, and if I see this fee on my first bill, I cloned the Mac on my new router to prevent BS...



$40/MONTH isn't bad for 500/500... Nor is the 50/month next year...

I didn't see an option to negate the "router rental" fee. Please keep me posted

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[Robotron2k84]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/frontier-an-isp-in-29-states-plans-to-file-for-bankruptcy/

Frontier to declare bankruptcy. Prepare for your contracts to be negated and prices raised.

[MrFancyPants]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...or-bankruptcy/



Frontier to declare bankruptcy. Prepare for your contracts to be negated and prices raised.

Saw that coming from a long way off. They've been in trouble for awhile.

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[Robotron2k84]

Once they actually make the announcement is the time to get out if you don’t want a new contract forced on you. You can only break the contract for free once the entity has declared Ch. 11.

[the86d]

I really don't get why Fiber is a losing game for Verizon, now Frontier...
Where is the money going?

Verizon probably saw the writing on the wall for streaming TV, but WTPhrik Frontier?

[Robotron2k84]

Fiber is a poor fit for municipal-scale networks, simple as that. Construction, migration, accidents where cut, rerouting at the whim of BOSs, etc. The companies that maintain the fiber have to deal with all of that, and that fiber is less-tolerant of changes in situ and more expensive when necessary.

Contrast to long-haul and demarc’d fiber where the scope is smaller and there is less change over time, or more change but less rigid demands for routing physical cable.

Copper is much easier to work with in a metro scenario. Verizon’s goal was to replace all the copper with fiber. Once landlines stopped being a thing, half of their market evaporated over a few years.

There’s no money in building new residentially-subsidized broadband infrastructure, and all new service will be wireless in under ten years.

For businesses that still want fixed wireline service, more are choosing long-haul Ethernet to hubs, in only a few locations, which uses fiber only from the DMARC, or even twisted pair, rather than trenched fiber, unless they pay themselves to light it up.

Fiber proponents thought it would be cheap to light up every building, and that’s proven to be a bad, and money-losing, assumption.

[Joseg1320]

I have this internet speed and I don't understand how it sucks so much. Honestly I had better service with Spectrum's 200 internet. My phone randomly stops getting wifi and I have to turn the wifi setting on and off for it to work again. When watching Youtube on my TV's, it takes a while for the image to render to 720+ quality. It's a good thing I didn't get in contract with them, I'm on month to month.

[Robotron2k84]

That sounds like a premises equipment issue, not a problem with the service, per se.