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Old 01-31-2015, 12:04 PM
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I suspect you actually have coax cable to the house and not copper. There are a lot of pieces needed to provide service to your home. Fiber is newer so all the pieces may be newer and perhaps more reliable. Most of the really high speed services are fiber based and even Comcast will be rolling out their HFC (hybrid fiber-coax) soon. I don't think anyone will debate that fiber is a better medium than coax but it doesn't mean that coax isn't acceptable. My comment about fiber was in the context that the newer areas of The Villages have fiber to the house and it may provide a better service than the older copper (real copper, not coax) networks for Century Link customers. It certainly supports higher bandwidths.

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Originally Posted by champion6 View Post
I know everyone believes fiber is better than copper for Internet - I felt the same way. I have Internet service via copper from Comcast and I'm completely satisfied. I'm not a Comcast "fanboy," just stating a fact.