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Comcast to CenturyLink Prism Switch
I understand that CenturyLink Prism is now in the Northern sections of The Villages. Has anyone switched from Comcast? Your thoughts please if you have.
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We switched from Comcast to Century Link Prism, without a contract, for two months. The picture kept freezing so we went back to Comcast. In our opinion, Comcast can't be beat for the reception and service. Don't know why we ever switched? The only good thing was we got used to the DVR with Century Link because it was included, so paid the extra money to get it when we switched back to Comcast.
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Thank you for your thoughts, I have read reviews and many people say the same about picture freeze. Are you in the northern section of The Villages? |
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How is CenturyLink for internet service?
I just disconnected 3 homes from Comcast because of the horrid service. I'm now with Brighthouse; the service has had a few issues but at least I have intelligent, polite humans to speak to, and they are trying to resolve the problems (mostly speed). I don't use cable TV services at all. |
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One thing to note is that when that part of the development between 466 and 466A was being built, only Comcast was allowed to develop their infrastructure to supply television service and Embarq was allowed to develop their infrastructure for telephone. It's Comcast coax cable that runs underground to all these homes. When Centurylink bought up Embarq, they inherited Embarqs infrastructure, namely the telephone wire. With Centurylinks introduction of Prism TV and their ability to use the telephone wire to supply the service, they became the sole competitor with Comcast in the area in question. When you request Centurylink service, Centurylink uses the existing telephone wire to your house and then uses the interior coax cable wiring for hookup through their modem. That's why we do not have Brighthouse north of 466A. When the area south of 466A was being developed, Centurylink then had the opportunity to run the fiber optic cable right up to the homes. Thus those folks have true Prism fiber optic television. |
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But I would like to stay with Comcast. z |
One BIG difference between Centurylink and Comcast is that, because of the difference in the way each delivers TV service to your house, Comcast allows unlimited number of different HD channels to be viewed simultaneously. With Centurylink one is limited to watching only 4 different channels at a time with only 2 different HD channels with the other 2 channels to be viewed in SD(Standard Def). Now, if you're a one TV household, you can watch one HD channel while recording one other HD on the DVR, no problem. But, if you want to record two HD channels at the same time, then you'll have to watch the third TV show in SD. If you're like some of us with 2 or 3 HD TV sets, then things can get real interesting. Of course, if the TV sets are all tuned to the same channel such as Super Bowl, then there is no problem since any number of sets can be tuned to the same channel.
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