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Originally Posted by biker1
Century Link is the only provider with fiber optic to the house. The others are coax to the house with most likely a fiber trunk elsewhere. CenturyLink offers 1 gigabit per second (1000 megabits per second) if you can find the use for it, along with several other speeds. Netflix 4K actually needs about 25 megabits per second as per their website. I assume this means that you must be able to sustain 25 megabits per second from their facility. 1080p HiDef needs about 5 megabits per second.
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I've been looking into it. Now I am not sure if Xfinity uses Fiber Optic cables though the internet seems fast and can't imagine they don't.
Looking into Century Link, they do not have home security and they require auto-pay. Friend of my mine who Century Link says the service is good, but the customer service is not. That is not what I say, but it is moving me personally to the other direction.
(sorry to sidetrack) From personal experience in my life with Netflix 4K. I lived in NYC and used Cablevision. I had the 40mps service and always checked on speediest.net. Even though the 4K bar in Netflix would show up, my 40mps had trouble and movies were slow and stopped at times. That was a couple years ago. Currently I have 75mps (ATT, Fiber Optics) and no problems with Netflix HD as I really am doing 85mps.
Now I have been looking at Brighthouse also. Its another one in the game. (but watch OP says, I will probably take them off the board)
Basically for me, it is going to go down to a couple options.
Who is using the Fiber Optics
Are the channels I watch in HD
Home Security cheaper to bundle with Xfinity than to buy from another company