<p dir="ltr">I just switched to Charter internet and have been blown away by their customer service. $40/mo for 60Gb/s isn't bad. Coupled with free Ooma phone service I'm saving upwards of $100 per month over AT&T who's service was just insulting.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Matt</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 14, 2016 20:36, "Scott Packard" <<a href="mailto:spackard@gmail.com">spackard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>For what it is worth my Charter cable Internet has had problems off and on for over a year - <br></div>I phone up when it's a problem, they'd send out a tech, find and fix the problem on their<br></div>line, and go away for 4-6 months, only for it to repeat. This last time the tech removed<br></div>a filter on the line at the pole. The filter was there because I don't subscribe to video<br></div>and it would block me from receiving "basic cable" channels for free. Since they went all<br></div>digital the filter is no longer necessary. Signal has been great since.<br><br></div>Regards, Scott<br></div><div class="elided-text"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 2:08 AM, Claude Felizardo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cafelizardo@gmail.com" target="_blank">cafelizardo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So after a year, the promo rate for my triple bundle from TimeWarner<br>
expired so my bill has gone up. The speed has been great, typically<br>
around 60 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up, getting close to 100 in the middle<br>
of the night but it frequently stalls, drops to < 5 Mbps often<br>
depending on time of day and then flat out outages that last minutes<br>
to hours. We frequently reboot the modem when the phone is dead<br>
though the Cable TV portion is usually okay. We're still getting what<br>
looks like a decent discount for the bundle but the reliability has<br>
been worse than what we had with ATT DSL before trying DSLExtreme for<br>
a couple of years.<br>
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When I looked at Giggle Fiber last year which is available in parts of<br>
Monrovia and Arcadia, the price was $30 for 20 Mbps, $40 for 50, $60<br>
for 100 and $70 for unlimited. Modem rental was $8/mo. Checking<br>
today, prices have not changed to much for the basic speeds: $20 for<br>
5, $30 for 20, $45 for 60 and now $60 for max. Modem rental has<br>
dropped to $5.50/mo and free for their max. I talked to someone at<br>
their storefront last week and was told that Monrovia has imposed a 5%<br>
easement fee so monthy would be ~$63/mo plus a one time $45 install.<br>
You can only use their modems (Cisco, forget the model) supposedly due<br>
to security. I would need to provide my own WiFi which wouldn't be a<br>
problem.<br>
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Anyone have any experience with Giggle Fiber? What kind of speeds do<br>
people get? Any drops outs or outages or slow downs? When I talked<br>
to them last year, they claimed fewer people connected to their nodes<br>
compared to their cable competitors but who is their provider?<br>
<br>
We still want TV cable and phone (it's only $10 extra) but seriously<br>
thinking of dropping the internet part and moving to Giggle Fiber. My<br>
wife talked to TimeWarner and supposedly we can switch to just TV<br>
Cable and phone for much less especially after you subtract their<br>
$10/mo modem rental and $10/mo for their Ultimate 100 upgrade so would<br>
be saving long term once you get past the install but I can't find any<br>
stats on their uptime.<br>
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Claude<br>
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