Fiber Optic Internet Service In the New Areas South of 44 in the Villages
 

I know Quantum Fiber offers Fiber Optic internet service in homes built circa 2014 and newer in most areas of the Villages. I know they are south to Fenney but does anyone know if they offer service in Richmond, DeLuna, Newell, Middleton areas? Someone mentioned that you can get fiber optic internet service in these newer areas but it's provided by a different company?

We have a friend that recently moved to Newell and got fiber optic service. We live in the new section of DeLuna and I don’t think it’s available here. I’ve been meaning to check.

Can you find out which company provided the service?

Lake County
 

It looks like fiber optics is available only in the Villages located in Lake County? Spectrum services up to the county line on Meggison. Newell, Denham and Dabney eastward of the county line have fiber.serviced out of Leesburg. Middleton and Eastport are in Sumter so I’m not sure if they will have it?

Centric Fiber.

It's a shame Quantum Fiber is not available in the new areas. The Centric offers look OK but Quantum is still cheaper for the lower speed service. Looks like Centric is a company out of Texas.

Quantum just had this great deal, 200 Mbs for $30 Plus free Mesh Network. Some friends of mine got this service and it works great. Unfortunately it expired 7/13. Maybe they will do it again.

The area between 466a and 44 has fiber in some areas (can't say for sure is all). I have a 1GB fiber connection for my internet service in Hillsborough.

Thanks Don!

I was wondering if you know and if you can tell us, when the Developer plans to build a series of Villages how is the cable franchise negotiated? Meaning, how was it decided to let Centric install fiber to the home vs Lumen/Quantum in these new areas? I understand both are good companies just curious at a high level what the process is. I was surprised that Quantum didn't build out their fiber infrastructure in these new areas since they are a large provide in many states.

John

fiber service in Hillsborough
 

Hi Don,
Who supplies your fiber service off Hillsborough? How much total monthly with taxes added in?

It’s a shame, too, that it’s not available in the older areas.

Does anyone know if it is available in Northern St. John’s ?

I wish we could get fiber optics for cable TV like they have up north. In New Jersey we had Fios and it was outstanding in both picture quality and dependability. Up north it was provided through Verizon. They won't make the investment in fiber wiring here. Shame.

Verizon no longer offers FIOS.....guess they found out there wasn't enough profit.

We live in Newell and our home came fiber ready. We have Centric Fiber and are very happy with the service. It was easy to get it set up since the home came pre-wired. This is our first time with using fiber and it is the fastest internet speed that we have ever had.

T-Mobile Internet
 

Ater my third try finally have T-mobile internet at $50 a month. So glad I finally got away from Xfinity at $90. If you are near any of the cell towers, within a few miles, you should get a good, fast connection. I get 250mb in Santo Domingo. With Xfi I was getting 50mbs, when it was working. T-mobile has been updating all the cell service so it's finally working for me. :BigApplause:

I put my address in for quantum fiber. I am in Osceola hills and it was available

For sure. We live just behind Colony just NORTH of 466A just over 10 years (edit: sorry 14 years :) ) old home and our only option was either Circa 1990 DSL (10-15Mbps) or ComCrap. Tried the DSL when we were moving in, whatta joke. We went with Comcrap/Xfinity and surprising have has zero issues and. virtually zero outages (we are notified of just about any any outage over ~15 to 30 seconds) over the last 5 years. 1.3Gbps service.

REALLY miss FiOS from up in NJ. Sadly we'll never see fiber here in Amelia. There were trucks running fiber INTO LSL area along the Winn Dixie lot. Probably just for commercial use.

What you need to realize is cable internet is shared with all your neighbors so at different times of the day and or at night your speed will decrease and vary when everyone is streaming TV, etc. Also, you may be getting 1.3 Gbps but that's only download. Your upload speed is about 35 Mbps because cable does not give you bi-directional speeds. You are probably no where near using all the bandwidth to your home but this information is good to know because on some cable systems they don't add capacity when needed and you could have bandwidth problems when too many people are streaming for example.

Fiber on the other hand is not shared meaning every customer has a unique lightwave path back to the ISPs servers and the speed is bi-directional. So if you are paying for 1Gbps speeds you get 1Gbps download and upload.

Osceola Hills, Dunedin, most of Hillsboro, Fenney, and other Villages with homes built circa late 2014 on should have Quantum Fiber and the newer homes just being built have Centric.

When the homes are built in the Villages the cable and fiber infrastructure are installed so what you have is what you have. I haven't seen any infrastructure additions on established Villages like in NY/NJ where Verizon deployed FiOS fiber all over regardless of when the homes were built.

Not Available in Sawgrass area
 

St. Catherine and Citrus Grove don’t have the service.

I'm aware of the "shared" aspect of cable as I used (~10 yrs ago) to work in the NOC of a HORRIBLE private MDU cable & DirecTv provider in NJ that provided internet & DirecTV for MDU's nationwide however this is The Villages where RARELY is any bandwidth used by neighbors. Most here think 100Mbps is "high speed" which is plenty for most people :D. I have 3 24x7 2K security cams streaming live 24x7 plus a ton of other stuff sucking up bandwidth and am paying for the 1.2Gbps tier from Comcrap (because it was about $50/mo CHEAPER than their 900Mbps tier at the time) and have NEVER seen less than 1.3 up to 1.4Gbps and believe me I check quite often particularly at night when I use it. They currently only provide 30-40Mbps upload which is more than enough. I actually get LESS upload because I am using their MODEM (free for 2 years + free unlimited data - damn their data cap which my cams ALWAYS went over) in bridge mode and they don't like that. All the current streaming done by most folks here uses minimal bandwidth. When we had Fios up north, at that time 200Mbps was "blazing fast" :) and we did get 200/200 service. I don't think there are many Comcrap nodes that get overloaded here in The Villages and I also think they now can work around that at the times IF or when it does.

Charlotte circa 2012 has Quantum

Understood which is why if you can get it, the 200MBS for $30 deal with Quantum, thats the one to get. Last month they had a special running where they included their Plume wireless mesh system up to 4 nodes for free! My friend in Fenney got it and it works great. So far, Quantum doesn't raise their prices every year and ther is no contract, no tax. I have the 1Gbs service and it's been $65 for the past 2 years eventhough for new customers it's now $70/month. Unlike with the cable providers that raise prices all the time and you have to keep going back to them to get the price reduced. I know there are some that don't have this problem but they are probably paying close to full price or got lost in the system. My friend in Fenney had Xfinity cable TV with 10 channels, a landline and their slowest speed internet for $120/month after negotiating with them. Now he pays $30/month with Quanutum, 200 Mbs and streams with an AppleTV and has a sophisticated mesh wifi system that he would have to pay a couple hundred dollars to get. He uses Consumer Cellular for his mobile phones which is pretty close to the price of the cellular service provided by the cable companies but works way better.

It was also interesting, when I moved to the Villages 2 years ago I thought all us older people would still be using cable TV boxes and old style cable but to my surprise almost all got rid of their cable boxes and were streaming. The problem was no one knew they had fiber at their home until I moved in. I used to work for Verizon so I knew what I was looking at when I saw the fiber at my home lol. After some neighbors talking to each other, many changed to fiber.

The old style cable business has been dying for many years and at the end of the day all they will be selling is internet just like Lumen and the rest of them.

If you have comcast/xfinity or spectrum and want to save some money, I just switched to Quantum and have my Motorola Modem/Router (MG8702) for sale. PM me please.