Posted: 11/27/2015 5:54:49 PM EDT
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Moving and all I can find so far for the new place is DSL from Frontier. Found some internet complaining about 7MB connections that were only getting 1MB of service, but the discussions were ~5 years ago.
Anyone use them? How's the service? Thanks |
I do. It's either them, or get satellite, where I live. I have 2 phone lines/numbers with Frontier and my internet is bundled with one of them (the other is my business number). It's reliable, always works, never goes down....... but it's sloooooow. 
I can tell you this... forget about streaming video, such as Netflix. |
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Those appear to be my options as well. They're advertising 'Up to' 6MB/s for the connection. Unfortunately this means nothing for actual delivered speeds.
In the thread I read about connection problems there were some folks that seemed very knowledgeable about DLS infrastructure and some folks were able to move from 1MB to 3MB by forcing a tech to come out and make some modifications. I haven't bothered to get steeped in the details yet. |
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I've been told DSL requires fiber optics for a main distribution line, and that the further you are from the source, the slower your maximum speed. I'm not tech savvy enough to agree with, nor dispute, that claim. Almost all the telephone lines are old copper wire around here, and most are still above ground as you get further from town.
I can say this much... I'm at the end of the line for fiber optics where I live. There's a bridge over a lake channel 1/2 mile to my east, and there's no DSL available on the other side of that bridge. I have friends just across the bridge, my neighbor owns a marina on that side, and they cannot get DSL. On this side of the bridge, a few years back before the economy tanked, a developer built a big condo project on the lake shore on this side of the channel, with 30 condos in the $400K+ range, and convinced Verizon (which was the carrier then, bought out here by Frontier since) to run a fiber optic line out to that development for DSL service. Everyone in between there and the nearest town was able to jump on board. Same situation happened with natural gas, but WPS went beyond the bridge with the gas line afterwards. Verizon didn't see enough profit to be made to justify running more fiber optics. The population dwindles quickly after you cross the bridge, as the Nicolet National Forest begins a few miles down the road. |