Thinking about signing up and wondering how they are performing.

Loaded said:

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Thread bump.

Metronet put out flags along our street several weeks ago ahead of laying the fiber in the yards. I'm ready to finally dump Suddenlink/Optimum, so I'd like to hear others experiences with Metronet too.

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It'll be a bit more.

Fiber optic installation takes quite a few steps:
1. Planning (done)
2. Install conduit
3. Install fiber inside conduit
4. Splice fiber at the main nodes
5. Install terminals along street
6. Test everything.
7. Install customers
8. Bury cable from street to house.

In the Brazos WiFi deployments the fastest we can do this is about a month. Normally it is many months from start to finish.

What general area are you in?

Angry Elephant Bryan

stink has now been optimized.

Hoping Metronet or Frontier will be available in my new hood once my house is done. What are you all paying for fiber?

We recently got Frontier 500mb fiber. 39.99 for 12 months, free Eero router. Works great so far.

EliteElectric said:

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Angry Elephant Bryan

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Dang it now I am craving triple fried wings.

They installed fiber from pedestal to our home yesterday equipment install Tuesday.

Metronet installed fiber on my street this past May. I signed up. Was told it would be ready in August. Here I sit in January still on Suddenlink/Optimum paying for 1G that I have never come close to seeing.

I had signed up for Metronet a couple months ago when they put door hangers out, even though they had just started working on laying conduit in the neighborhood. But Frontier came in like a freak storm and has been way faster at getting conduit and now fiber in the ground.

Called Metronet to cancel my pre-install and they offered $25/month bill credit with auto-pay, one free month, and a $150 bill credit if I show my current provider's final bill.

I still canceled them, since it looks like Frontier may go active first, but for anyone who wants to engineer a deal...

After an hour on phone with retention dept they offered to give us same package we were paying 320 per month for for 89. Lol

We bought a house in Austin's Colony but unfortunately Metronet hasn't quite reached our street. We are one of only 3 or 4 houses on our side of the street.

Curious of the performance as well. We were paying $220 before taxes for cable/internet. They dropped my package to $180 after 5 minutes. Cancelled cable anyways and picked up YTTV and I'm paying around $170 now. Metronet can get me faster speeds for about $50 cheaper a month so I'd like to switch but I'm worried it's too new.

Thisguy1 said:

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Curious of the performance as well. We were paying $220 before taxes for cable/internet. They dropped my package to $180 after 5 minutes. Cancelled cable anyways and picked up YTTV and I'm paying around $170 now. Metronet can get me faster speeds for about $50 cheaper a month so I'd like to switch but I'm worried it's too new.

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Current conditions with 10+ browser windows open, a cloud based estimating software running and Pandora streaming music, I seem to be bogging down the bandwidth

can you use your existing router with their setup? do you have to rent their equipment?

LSCSN said:

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can you use your existing router with their setup? do you have to rent their equipment?

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They gave me an eero but I'm not using it

wadd96 said:

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We bought a house in Austin's Colony but unfortunately Metronet hasn't quite reached our street. We are one of only 3 or 4 houses on our side of the street.

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Check with Frontier, they've also been silently pulling fiber thru Austins Colony in the conduits. If they've already ran the conduit (orange and blue tubing) in the ground along your street, Frontier may have already pulled their fiber thru. I know some folks that are still waiting in AC for metronet while Frontier is already in use on their street.

Metronet put out the little signs saying they'd be digging up my yard but so far, I haven't seen anyone come to do work.
Edit to add: I'm at Carter Creek and Villa Maria

They put those out all in my yard last year. BTU or Atmos came out and put their flags shortly after. Nobody ever dug up anything and all of my neighbors have Metronet. The only activity I saw was at the end of my street.

Metronet came to my house in Austin's Colony to sell me service. I was ready to get on the wait list since the pedestal hadn't been turned on yet on my block. The guy wanted my SSN. I'm like, "I don't give that out to my family, much less a total stranger trying to sell me internet on the street." Very weird.

We have had metronet for nearly 2 months now. Very happy with the service and their people are nice and very professional. Super fast internet that's dependable. Not cutting out several times per day, as Suddenlink did. One outage happened when another contractor dug thru the fiber. Not their fault but it was repaired quickly, and they were very professional on the phone.


Side note--quitting suddenlink was a difficult as everybody said it would be. Then we got a bill for the equipment we returned. Shocking, right? Fortunately, we turned it into a human and got a receipt for it, but we are still having to fight about it.

TransplantedRedRaider said:

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We have had metronet for nearly 2 months now. Very happy with the service and their people are nice and very professional. Super fast internet that's dependable. Not cutting out several times per day, as Suddenlink did. One outage happened when another contractor dug thru the fiber. Not their fault but it was repaired quickly, and they were very professional on the phone.


Side note--quitting suddenlink was a difficult as everybody said it would be. Then we got a bill for the equipment we returned. Shocking, right? Fortunately, we turned it into a human and got a receipt for it, but we are still having to fight about it.

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Did Metronet charge you to run the fiber from the box to (and inside) your house? My BIL set an appointment with them and when they showed they said they were going to have to trench his yard from the street, around to the back of the house and then drill through his brick veneer.

installation was free

EliteElectric said:

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installation was free

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Thanks

Hi there, my name is Kelly Huh and I'm a journalist at Reviews.org and I'm looking to find a customer quote for my upcoming article on MetroNet.

Would you be interested in going on the record (we can set up a phone call or Zoom interview) and share your experience with me?

I'd love to know about how you felt about their price, speed, reliability, and customer service.

You can email here kelly.huh@clearlink.com or call 801 808 2918.