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Renting Equip from Internet Suppliers
Never rent hardware from your Internet provider. It is last generation junk and your rental rates would allow you to buy your own up-to-date hardware in less than a year. Buy your own modem and router. These days most of the stuff is plug-and-play that anyone can install.
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My relatives in Boca have basic tv service with Comcast and pay $20/mo. for it and the board pays for it. Because the board called comcast and said we have 400 homes that want your service and they jumped at the chance.
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Comcast Issues
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I have in the past, more than once done the David vs Goleith routine and I won both times. People who know what I did have wondered why I did not blow it up for everyone. The answer is when I needed help to do what I did everyone, including my wife, thought I was being a fool-that is until after I won. Getting people to do something is difficult. Most, sadly including me, just complain. My idea, of course I think someone other than me should do it, Would be for us The Villages to negotiate as a group. If, an internet provider loses one customer, not bid deal. Were they to lose the Villages or a Village you can bet the price would go down and the service would improve. |
FYI, I did replace Xfinity modem with my own speedy modem from Best Buy. Worked fine for a while (I mean month not years) then crawled slower and slower. Called Xfinity and they did all their usual useless trouble shouting while on phone and then blamed my almost brand new speedy netgear modem. For me, Getting a new modem only gave Xfinity someone else they could blame.
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I have XFinity internet and own my modem. It pays for itself over time. I have performance internet speed and that is plenty for internet and streaming TV through Roku. My speed tests are always over 100 mg speed, usually around 116mg. I have had Blast speed which tested over 400 mg speed and didn't notice a difference with my internet or streaming TV. I pay $40 for internet, no taxes or equipment rental because I own my modem, which is an Arris.
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We changed to CenturyLink and finally have no buffering problems. You might want to check them out. Comcast was terrible and kept raising their prices.
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We are moving into St Catherine next month. None of the providers have our address in their databases yet. How do we find out what is truly available? Everyone just says Comcast.
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Same thing happened to me, I had them come get their stuff the day they lied to me. Exact same thing...
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Comcast modems are caped. I found out this a few years ago. I bought my own modem from best buy 199.00 because of the same problem. Thinking my bill would be lowered because I'm no longer renting a Comcast modem they told me the discount I was getting for my package was tied in with the modem and my bill would increase by 20.00 . Humm so I told them Is there something I could take off of my package to get it back down , yes hbo never watch it anyway so I did that. my internet speed went from 40-60 mbps to 200 + mpbs. with my modem. They actually told me everything in the book like the signal cant go thru the walls and thats why there modems were slow. If you want fast internet DO NOT use Comcast modems
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Bought my Arris modem which is the same one Xfinity recommends. Obviously buying your own will save you a lot of money over time. I pay for 200 MBPS and always tests out at 200+. Bundling Xfinity TV, internet 200 and home phone is a fair price at $175.00 a month total. Looked into doing YouTube TV and then getting internet service and home phone service separately and it came out about the same price. People get all revved up about cutting the cord but I see no advantage as of yet.
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Internet only via CenturyLink: $45 per month price-for-life
YouTubeTV: $65 per month OOMA Voice-over-IP phone: $5 per month Total: $115 per month Quote:
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Xfinity equipment
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Test results
When I did the test, I got the following results: ping 32ms, download 476.86 mbps and upload 23.57 mbps. I’m not sure which one should be compared to the 300 mbps.
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Just some speed thoughts
Before blaming the provider, make sure you do not have an issue with the equipment in your home. The speed posted by these companies are normally what is coming into your house...not what most get when using their old PC's, tablets, old laptops, etc.
1 - When you check speeds, if you just check from your browser over wi-fi, that speed may be slower due to your issues with wi-fi in your house and wi-fi being inherently slower than what is on the cable coming into your house (unless you use wi-fi 6 and have all wi-fi 6 compatible connectivity points). If you check from a PC directly hooked up to the wi-fi router with an old NIC card that is incapable of high speeds, then that could be your slowdown point. 2 - If you know how, log into your wi-fi router or wi-fi router app and run the test from there. That normally will run the speed test from your wi-fi router. Again, if you have a router not capable of the speeds you are paying for, it might be your bottleneck. Think of it this way, your car may be capable of going 120 mph. But you won't get that speed driving on hairpin curves, up and down mountain passes. You will get that on a straight, flat stretch of road. One thing to consider, most people are buying more Internet speed than they need because we all have been told that will fix all of our problems. Unless you are streaming 4K all the time while trying to view videos on your laptop while the kids are online gaming all the time, you likely just need to upgrade your wi-fi router and cable modem (buy them and save on the monthly rent). Check your speed coming in the house from there, make sure it is what you are paying for and then start figuring out the bottlenecks...does that TV need to be on all day long type of issues. Also, for those who want to not rent their modem and wi-fi, first consider if you want to support your own equipment and update it. Some automatically update while others you need to apply firmware updates and patches on your own. Are you comfortable doing that? If you rent, it is on the provider to update their device's software...and they normally do that. Anyway, make sure the equipment in your house can handle the Internet speeds you are paying for. Make sure you actually need the speed you are paying for and not trying to speed up your devices that are incapable of handling the speed. |
Are you allowed to have an antenna, like before cable? We were in Safety Harbor( Tampa bay) and just had internet no cable. Sling worked out great
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All of the coax cable internet providers have the same problem. Think of a large pipe as the connection for your area. The more people who open the tap the slower the flow.
The same goes for your home wifi. The more devices on your wifi the slower the flow. TV, mobile phone, ipad, other wifi devices. Each one will require some data stream and reduce the total available from your wifi router. |
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You have more than you need. Two people streaming at the same time: 150mbps is plenty. Skip |
I agree. That is where you want to get a cable modem that has the correct speed ability, but also has a multiple channel capabilities. Then the modem switches between the channels automatically making sure you remain on the least congested channel...I know...I'm simplifying what it does...
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Your connection is great.
Based on your current download speed of 466.685 Mbps, we expect you’ll have a high-performance gaming experience on Stadia. Go back to the Google Store. First I have my own modem. It's a Netgear 1900 high speed modem. Cost $199.00 I've had it for 2 years. I would have paid Comcast $240.00 to rent there junk. I pay for just 300 blast service. No TV with Comcast. I range between 350 and 470 most of the time. The wife has Directv at over $200 a month And I stream my tv needs for under $25.00 a month. As you can see a have no problem with Comcast. Now Directv is a different story. |
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FYI For years Xfinity/Comcast informed me (in Maryland) that Speedtest should be done using ethernet cabling. IOW, when using Speedtest on your phone (which is wireless) there would be an anticipated degradation of the upload and download speeds (and presumably ping). |
T-Mobile Home availability
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How do you check the speed?
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If you have the name and model number of the old modem do an internet search and see what the old modem was really capable of providing. If when they switched you over to the faster service and if they should have replaced the modem at the time, I feel they owe you a refund. However, if the old modem was capable of the faster service and something else prevented you form getting the faster speed, then at that point I don't think they owe you a refund. That is why you need to test your internet speed on a regular basis.
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My Comcast speed
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Been there, done that (DSL @ C link). We are running BASIC Comcast internet (28 Meg max) and have absolutley no issues running a 4k stream and numerous 720P Ip cams viewing remote properties. People paying for "Blast" are wasting money; unless they are running Servers for other services. |
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