Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Thanks for the advice. There are no other Century Link alternatives for me. Sent from my VS995 using Tapatalk |
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Well, if you are next to your router and wifi speed is noticeably less than one of the things I suggested are wrong. If you are a distance from your router and experience that lower speed it is another story (depending on router and device). As far as any installer's comments I wouldn't trust them. They want to get out as fast as they can. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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ZyXel Model C1100Z CentuyLink as of this second if has been flawless. Ut Oh. Mine is 3 or 400 gigawatts whatever it takes. $36.07 a month. They have had two billing issues in a year and a half. I even passed a $400 deal from Concast and am happy I did.
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Speedtest.net by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test
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Because my wife is self employed and did not want to lose her name recognition, she kept her maiden name when we married. Every time Comcast raises our rates we cancel and then immediately sign up again under the other persons name and get the new customer rate for a couple years. We just keep going back and forth under each other's name and never get price increases. I am not sure if this would work if we had the same last name?
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Was thinking the same thing. I wonder how long you have to be "gone" to be considered NEW again. With DirecTV and Fios it was 2 years.
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I have a Westell 7500 from my old DSL house. PM me if you want it for $20 rather than renting for $8/month.
Westell 7500 Specs Details Picture ADSL 6 Mbps ADSL2+ 10 Mbps VDSL2 N/A GPON N/A Bonded N/A IPv6 No Prism TV No Wi-Fi B/G Ports 4 Ethernet Data Sheet Yes^ Support Level 1 ^ Not all features, ports [example: USB host port] an Quote:
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Thanks .. but while it is "supported" it only supports up to 10Mbps and doesn't have a Gig-E LAN port just 10/100.
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If your ISP is at 25 Mbps what do you gain if your WIFI is 100Mbps? I have Centurylink 25Mbps. Works great no buffering, no slow downs. I just bought the router they were supplying. I believe it is an ActionTec 1900A. I like it. Simple to configure and gets the job done. I tested the download speed and I'm actually getting about 29Mbps down and 2Mbps up. No complaints.
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You are mostly right except I have 3 local ethernet connected devices (server & 2 clients) that greatly benefit from the faster gig-e speed switch in the router and I don't want to buy a switch. Also that modem in question only supports up to 10Mbps Dsl speed as I noted in my reply need vdsl2 (as you do) and get 25Mbps DSL. 10/100 4 port built in switch on the router has nothing to do with wi-fi just the hard wired ethernet connections. Was looking at the Actiontec on eBay which was what I would go for if I have to mnake the switch to C.L. They're around $29-$39 used so I figure it's worth a shot. Just have to see how ComCrap responds to my cancellation. Hopefully it will all be moot. I'd prefer to stick with them for the 100Mbps internet speed which I now have.
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. . "If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble." Betty White (1922-2021) R.I.P. Last edited by EdFNJ; 01-07-2018 at 05:12 PM. |
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Surprisingly (after reading many other posts here and elsewhere to the contrary) I just called the ComCrap retention department planning on cancelling my internet service because my 1 yr promo is over if they couldn't offer me a new "deal". I was immediately offered the same promo rate as I started with for another year with zero hassle (other than trying to understand what she was saying). Another year of 100meg service for $55/month. So much for $45/mo for Century Link 25meg service ..... at least until Feb 1, 2019. They send an email with all the details to confirm so I am sure I got what she says.
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Read the advertised speeds carefully.
Mbps and MBps are two completely different things. bits vs Bytes Last edited by SFSkol; 01-08-2018 at 12:44 PM. |
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Who advertises Bytes instead of Bits? By the way thanks for getting the nomenclature correct. B is for Byte, and b is for bit.
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