I hear ya. I wouldn't want Fox or CNBC getting my money either. And it's great that it's cheaper for you. I just have a couple of friends that switched to Frontier from Comcast and I constantly hear about how the internet goes down all the time and how their customer service is horrible. One friend is in the process of going back to Comcast.

I personally have Comcast for internet only and it's rock solid for me. It hardly ever goes down and since I don't have cable TV, and own my own modem and router, I don't have to deal with their customer service much at all. I'm happy to pay slightly more for Comcast because the uptime is great and there are no headaches.

Sure wish there was competition in my area for Comcast. As it stands now there’s nothing comparable in regards to internet speeds other than CenturyLink and I don’t want to go back to them after having their service when they were known as Qwest.

It's interesting how Google and other tech giants have been sitting on these LLM internally, some of which might even be more advanced than the OpenAI products. The greatest contribution of Chatgpt might be a first mover advantage that persuades other companies off of the sidelines.

In my area yes. We will get you service as long as you are within 2000 to 3000 ft of the nearest fiber terminal. Now if you are way out there AND you do not feel like waiting to get fiber then I'm sure you can buy your way up to the top of the list. That's way above my pay grade though.

After Covid hit alot of government money went to ISP to expand the fiber network. The government wants as many ppl on a high speed network in case we have to lock down again. So Windstream isn't exactly spending the money if that makes sense. Windstream isn't the only company to receive money. If your ISP is garbage, start calling the PUC on these assholes. I can tell you from being a technician and a lineman for Windstream, though they have listened to complaints over the years and they want to build a better reputation. I used to hate Windstream internet with a passion. I wouldn't recommend our DSL/Copper service to anyone. I'll tell you to go to Comcast if you can't get fiber through Windstream. Personally i would go without internet rather than give comcast another cent.

Windstream fiber>everything else I have seen so far. Especially for the price.

You can get 1GB upload and down for a little over $90 a month.

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By cancelling cable service, at least I'm not giving a penny to Fox or CNBC.

If Frontier service is bad, at least I'm paying a third of what I was paying Comcast.

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Yeah, just go over to the Stadia sub.

Good. I'm not a fan of that company!

A lesson easily learned from playing Hasbro's Monopoly

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Huh, I haven't used it in years but it's great to see them still chugging along!

good. fuck em. Fuck cable companies, and fuck monopolistic IPs.

Having any monopoly necessitates being the worst one can be.

Dude only wifi6 can handle 1gps or more in ideal conditions with devices that support it and that goes down the drain mighty quick when you add devices or have any walls in between. Wifi6 hardware isnt cheap currently. Wired is the only realistic reliable way to go if you want your full speed. Plenty of youtube tutorials on how to crimp your own ethernet and there is benefit with taking as many devices off wifi as possible making it faster for the rest. Even when wifi reliably hits 6gb/s, the 10/100gb/s wired hardware will be better. Wireless just sucks that way, only real compromise to get full speed wirelessly is if you can send an ethernet run to each room and wire wifi6 accesspoints in each of those rooms.

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I’ve never had any of the regular outages or customer service issues that I often read about online when Comcast comes up, but I still cancelled their service recently because they charge way too much for what you get. Where they really get you over time is the equipment rental fees.

I have century link fiber where I live so I switched to that for only $55/month AFTER taxes/fees and that gives me 550 Mbps up/down. That’s more than enough bandwidth for several simultaneous 4K streams. There is no equipment rental fee for the modem.

I also signed up for Directv Stream (via my Apple TV boxes) for ~$70/month that includes all the traditional TV channels I actually care about.

All told, getting rid of Comcast is saving me close to $200/month and there is not a single thing I’m missing out on.

Good. I hope it's hitting Spectrum too, they have been spending so much money into advertising that it has gotten so damn annoying now.

kind of amusing to think about Google's zillion dollar per year business genius c-suite folks running around shouting "somebody do something!!!"

Power greed and money will never ease to exist...renewable energy just isn't enough for what our lifestyles are...I think this yr fussion actually took place for a brief moment.

I don't need it, but I certainly have plenty of places to put a dish.

Also, remember that Starlink isn't fully built out yet, many more to come. They've already launched four batches just this year, over 200 of them.