How does someone get 25M in the Middle of nowhere West Virginia?
Not looking forward to Atlantic Broadband's purchase of Metrocast
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How does someone get 25M in the Middle of nowhere West Virginia?
The best I have gotten so far is 21M down and 3M up and I am just down the road (and up a hollow) from the middle of nowhere WV. I have Hughesnet, no access to any cable but some places do have it out this way.
One ping only...
We'd kill for rates like those. On a good day, ours are 1.3M down and about 1.0M up. Old T1...but it's pretty reliable and our cable typically has not been, so can't use that for the business. Maybe we'll get fiber someday.
NorthBeachPerso
Honorary SMIB
Bottom line is that you guys who bitch and complain now will bitch and complain no matter what company has the contract.
Undoubtedly...since it's still the same junk infrastructure at the end of the day. ;-)
PeoplesElbow
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Expeditions go up once you get outside southern Maryland. From what I can tell 100M service is available.
From which provider? I've looked up HughesNet - I used to have them - and they only OFFER up to 25.
And they still throttle after your monthly limit, depending on the plan. (I don't blame them - you can only handle so much traffic through a satellite).
I'm looking more at wireless internet services as a possible alternative. (Probably not going there, but it is a more promising alternative to cable).
PeoplesElbow
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Sudden link and citynet both offer 100M here, DSL is up to 12m.
Check out broadbandnow.com for what is near you.
Agee
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Metrocast receives its cable feed from COMCAST, they're no more than a repeater/distribution hub...
awpitt
Main Streeter
You sure about that? I never seen any documentation suggesting that.
Agee
Well-Known Member
What I was told by a metrocast representative... So perhaps they were misinformed?
I would be surprised if they paid Comcast after investing money in the digital antenna for the local channels a few years back when they made the switch.
Looks like I'm stuck with Metrocast for terrestrial service, unless I go with Verizon, or a satellite.
If I could get Verizon FiOS I would switch in a heartbeat. When I had cable service it was one problem after another. I also heard enough horror stories about bad installs and such that I have no interest in going back for the improvement over DSL. What I would probably gain in upload / download speed would probably be lost in retries and being throttled during peak hours.
DSL might be slow, but it's at least reliable. I have Directv and the same can be said. My only limit there is my internet connection doesn't support On-Demand programming and network access.
Plus the sports packages are not available on Metrocast.
On Demand and Sports Packages have no utility for me, but I would switch to Verizon if it was FIOS instead of DSL.
Not that I use the On-Demand feature much, but occasionally I turn on a show in progress and don't have the option to go back and watch the entire show because my internet speed is slow
Hey, I'm an out of market sports fan, have to keep up with my home town (more or less) teams.
The irony is, I think I've seen most of the games via the national broadcast and in the other sport rarely get the home feed. BTW, that's a pissing contest between the parent company and Directv.
BTW, the new UHDTV is a smart tv and my DTV DVR have internet apps . I could watch Netflicks on the tv instead of chromecasting from my phone because Verizon Wireless is faster than DSL.
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