[jrref]

I forgot to mention, If you decide to get fixed wireless from Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile, be aware of the following. I was at a Villager's house yesterday helping straighten-out her network and they have Verizon fixed wireless. The problem is you need to put the wireless device in a location where it gets the strongest wireless signal which might be on one end of the house near a window. Although the service gives you pretty good speeds, if you have a large home, the wifi routermay not give you a good signal on the other end of the house because it's too far away. So, If you have no choice and feel the fixed wireless solution is best for you and you have a larger home, getting a mesh wifi system will be the solution for full wifi coverage.

[Brighthouse]

Originally Posted by MrLonzo

I live in the South, Monarch Grove. Fiber not available.

Spectrum is avilable by you. You can get 500Mbps for $30 or 1 gig for $50/month. Call their local sales rep Lysander. 352.239.3538. I signed up about 6 months from Xfinity. He came to my home and helped to make sure everything was working properly.

[rsmurano]

All isp plans are contracts, it doesn’t matter if they are 2,3,5 year contracts, they are contracts with expiration dates.
I was paying $80 a month for xfinity for 1G and I knew they were going to raise it by $50 after my contract expired so I went with spectrum. Plus, xfinity charges for their modem/router $25 a month which is on top of the monthly charge, not sure if they do this with the slower speed contracts. Spectrum doesn’t charge for their modem and I use my own routers.

WiFi thru the air is hit and miss but mostly miss because of the weak signal into the house. You have to place the wifi router in a certain spot to get a decent signal and then if you only use 1 router in your house, all the other rooms will get terrible wifi because the signal has to go thru walls. If you have an Ethernet port next to where you place the wifi router, then you can setup a wired bridged or mesh network with other routers in the other rooms in your house.

No isp will setup your private wifi network correctly. NOBODY! You will always have to change the wifi ssid’s on all your phones/tablets/computers/ecobee’s/garage door openers/etc.. instead of just using the last ssid you used with the other provider.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by rsmurano

All isp plans are contracts, it doesn’t matter if they are 2,3,5 year contracts, they are contracts with expiration dates.
I was paying $80 a month for xfinity for 1G and I knew they were going to raise it by $50 after my contract expired so I went with spectrum. Plus, xfinity charges for their modem/router $25 a month which is on top of the monthly charge, not sure if they do this with the slower speed contracts. Spectrum doesn’t charge for their modem and I use my own routers.

WiFi thru the air is hit and miss but mostly miss because of the weak signal into the house. You have to place the wifi router in a certain spot to get a decent signal and then if you only use 1 router in your house, all the other rooms will get terrible wifi because the signal has to go thru walls. If you have an Ethernet port next to where you place the wifi router, then you can setup a wired bridged or mesh network with other routers in the other rooms in your house.

No isp will setup your private wifi network correctly. NOBODY! You will always have to change the wifi ssid’s on all your phones/tablets/computers/ecobee’s/garage door openers/etc.. instead of just using the last ssid you used with the other provider.

Still incorrect that a single router cannot cover an entire villa or designer home. Some routers and some home designs may require additional equipment but certainly not all.

When the Xfinity installer came to my home five years ago he set the ssid to match my equipment, not the other way around as you claim. When I switched to T-Mobile the installer (me) set the ssid to match the equipment rather than the other way around. It may not happen all the time but it is untrue to say that no isp will set it correctly.

[rsmurano]

ok 1 out of a thousand installs the technician configured the router to correct way by changing the ssid to your existing ssid. Most do not and the people that called me in to redo their network, they all had the dual ssid’s and they had to change every device to their new ssid.

But I am right about WiFi speeds. Every wall in your house impacts the speed of your wifi signal, and not for the better, I don’t care if it’s a 1 bedroom or 5 bedroom. Why do 5G isp want you to place their router in a certain location in your house for better signal capture? I have friends that cameras in their garage didn’t work because the xfinity router was in a room almost the furthest from the garage. My outside grill wouldn’t connect to the wifi because of the weak signal.
Only a mesh network 6e or above can handle signals between walls because of their proprietary high speed backhaul. But the best way to connect to the internet is hard wired, from your computer, from any device, and even between any router.

[biker1]

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[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by rsmurano

ok 1 out of a thousand installs the technician configured the router to correct way by changing the ssid to your existing ssid. Most do not and the people that called me in to redo their network, they all had the dual ssid’s and they had to change every device to their new ssid.

But I am right about WiFi speeds. Every wall in your house impacts the speed of your wifi signal, and not for the better, I don’t care if it’s a 1 bedroom or 5 bedroom. Why do 5G isp want you to place their router in a certain location in your house for better signal capture? I have friends that cameras in their garage didn’t work because the xfinity router was in a room almost the furthest from the garage. My outside grill wouldn’t connect to the wifi because of the weak signal.
Only a mesh network 6e or above can handle signals between walls because of their proprietary high speed backhaul. But the best way to connect to the internet is hard wired, from your computer, from any device, and even between any router.

I have never had anything but a single router. My last house in Virginia had 5 bedrooms on 3 levels, and I only had a single router, but I got a good wifi signal in every room.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by rsmurano

ok 1 out of a thousand installs the technician configured the router to correct way by changing the ssid to your existing ssid. Most do not and the people that called me in to redo their network, they all had the dual ssid’s and they had to change every device to their new ssid.

But I am right about WiFi speeds. Every wall in your house impacts the speed of your wifi signal, and not for the better, I don’t care if it’s a 1 bedroom or 5 bedroom. Why do 5G isp want you to place their router in a certain location in your house for better signal capture? I have friends that cameras in their garage didn’t work because the xfinity router was in a room almost the furthest from the garage. My outside grill wouldn’t connect to the wifi because of the weak signal.
Only a mesh network 6e or above can handle signals between walls because of their proprietary high speed backhaul. But the best way to connect to the internet is hard wired, from your computer, from any device, and even between any router.

I’ve posted my speed test results before - the same 300Mvps results standing next to the router as I get standing in the corner of my garage two walls away.

Frequency makes a difference. That’s why the 2.4GHz WiFi band is not as affected by walls as the 5GHz band is. 5G cell signals exist in a band particularly affected by structural materials so putting the modem close to a window helps. Once the 5G cell signal is converted to 2.4GHz WiFi the walls don’t matter as much.

[allsport]

[QUOTE=MrLonzo;2463450]I've been paying $55/mo. to Xfinity for internet/WiFi service, and looking for a better deal when my 2 year contract ends next month. Any suggestions?[/QUOT


No better deals unless you don't care how fast your internet is. Cheaper is slow and hit and miss.