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Originally Posted by TerriS
Hi I am a Tech geek. I am looking for a house in the Villages and hope to move in soon. I am SOOOO sad that I cannot get ATT&T Gigabit service in The Villages as I have had them for a few years now in GA and love the service. No problems and great price with free HBO Max as well.
Looks like the new houses seem to only have Xfinity so I will likely have to go with that but how are the speeds as it is my understanding with Cable internet you share with other customers so you are never really getting the Highest speed advertised.
Also if and when other services become available it is worth changing?
Thanks in Advance  |
Well I can't say you are alone. We are also relocating and I faced the same problem I have high end requirements for my needs. At our current house I had to put in 4 runs of cat5e just to guarantee the coverage in a 2 story.
So while my wife picks houses by "Christmas Decorability" mine is based on 3 things 1 being "what's my speed" Due to my job plus some other items I can't accept 1GB "maybe" which is Xfinity read the fine print. So basically over the last couple months I saw a listing, ran the address and most times moved on.
Centurylink provides 1GB fiber without degraded speeds due to having me living next door. (trust me I can and have soaked a line) I'm also upgrading my wifi routers so that I can rely more on wireless rather than hard wired since coming back to Florida I find that getting someone to snake a wall isn't all that easy to find.
As for service, I've had comcast/xfinity, spectrum, AT&T, etc have not had CenturyLink. I can say that xfinity was the worst of those. I have a habit of when there are issues I troubleshoot it myself and then call them to tell them where they have a problem - Spectrum will listen if you get above Level 1 support, AT&T doesn't really listen to anyone, and xfinity didn't even get it on level 2 support.
Good luck with it, I find it frustrating. I did find out that there is additional fiber being and to be laid by CenturyLink in areas that currently do not have their fiber. I would assume that with that there will be others at the same time.