Moving into my new apt complex and the options are Frontier and Spectrum. I am honestly clueless about the difference. Any insight or advice would be appreciated.
TAMUallen said:
Avoid frontier like the plague. Bought markets from Verizon fios and managed to somehow screw them up completely
I switched to Spectrum and have had zero problems. Cheaper too!
TexAgsAnon said:
Frontier is fine. They were a little spotty during the Verizon transition but I've not had any issues with them, moving to a new address was easy with them, and their customer service has been fine so far as well.
Also, they terminated my contract as part of the Verizon transition because I demanded it. You guys need to learn how to treat companies!
It's a personal choice thing if they're offering it for free. Being on Spectrum/Time Warner for the last 8 years they've changed the rent charge for the cable modem multiple times, so I said screw it bought my own cable modem just to make sure I didn't have a surprise charge one month due to a change in T&Cs, plus I just like to know that I have control over the modem and a company can't back end their way into it one day.Candiru said:
Bump for the question about using Spectrum's modem (supposedly free) vs getting and using your own?
I'm in McKinney, and I rarely miss topping out at 10% above top speed on my package on download and right at my upload speed on the 200/20 package that I've had for 3 or 4 years now. The speeds are pretty consistent, and I don't really see any congestion issues (other than the odd blip that every company gets now and again), and I use the internet a lot as I work from home, connect into multiple remote servers with large transfers, and we stream most of our TV/Movies (we use the Spectrum Roku app to turn it into a STB in the house on all TV's except 1).AustinAg2K said:
I will probably be dropping Frontier next month, and I am also considering Spectrum. One thing I'm curious about is how consistent their speeds are. I haven't had a cable ISP since the late 90s when your speed could drastically vary depending on how many people in your neighborhood were on at the same time. Is that still an issue with cable? Or are your speeds pretty reliable now?