Who's best for cable and internet?
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StangerBanger96;297294 wrote:
IdeaOne SUCKS, I have a coworker with them and my girlfriends family has them. Speed sucks, "on" time sucks (always having issues), and just overall shitty. Midco > * around here...unless you live in Fargo...then you're screwed.Where do they live? I'll tell you if we are close to building to them. I can also check the "on" time issues for you. Maybe there is something I can do to make things better?
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wa2fastcamaro;297313 wrote:
I am in north moorhead. I would like a fairly fast service, but nothing too crazy.Midco
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Trafik Jamz;297310 wrote:
I should note that I do work for IdeaOne, though not on the consumer side, but rather the business side, and the reason I was surprised at what you said is because when I came over and checked my business contacts that I had in my blackberry, there were only 32 out of 600+ businesses who were not existing customers for phone and internetyou work for IdeaOne now? yeesh meng.
So, Osgood area (behind Hornbachers) - how is IdeaOne for that area?
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I think we are the only company that can deliver DSL to Osgood area. PM me your address and I'll look it up and see what we can do for you.
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Trafik Jamz;297327 wrote:
I think we are the only company that can deliver DSL to Osgood area. PM me your address and I'll look it up and see what we can do for you.I'm just tired of Cable One on principal alone. Be nice to get something a better if I can manage it. I was looking at switching to Cable One's limited plan until I saw their 1GB/month bandwidth cap (with charges there-after).
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Trafik Jamz;297314 wrote:
Where do they live? I'll tell you if we are close to building to them. I can also check the "on" time issues for you. Maybe there is something I can do to make things better?They live northeast of Dilworth, so IdeaOne is the only option they have. When they got it installed, the installation people told them the trees would not be a problem for their signal. Now they have had a guy out twice in the last year and he basically said the installation guys lied and the trees are going to be an issue and there is nothing that can be done. I'm on their network right now...and if both my girlfriend and I are on our computers and someone is on youtube...the others runs at what seems like 56K or slower speeds.
They live close to the intersection of Highway 11 and County 18. I'll text you...
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Sorry about that. Normally trees don't directly interfere, but w/o knowing the whole scenario, I can't say yes/no about them lying.
The wireless product is FCC limited/regulated to 1mbs down, so you will run out of bandwidth quickly on that, especially when streaming video from youtube or whatnot.
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StangerBanger96;297329 wrote:
They live northeast of Dilworth, so IdeaOne is the only option they have. When they got it installed, the installation people told them the trees would not be a problem for their signal. Now they have had a guy out twice in the last year and he basically said the installation guys lied and the trees are going to be an issue and there is nothing that can be done. I'm on their network right now...and if both my girlfriend and I are on our computers and someone is on youtube...the others runs at what seems like 56K or slower speeds.They live close to the intersection of Highway 11 and County 18. I'll text you...
1mbps will only get you like 100K of downstream data... I'm suprised you can stream youtube at all at. You'll get faster speeds through your EVDO phone then 1mbps.
Trafik Jamz;297332 wrote:
Sorry about that. Normally trees don't directly interfere, but w/o knowing the whole scenario, I can't say yes/no about them lying.The wireless product is FCC limited/regulated to 1mbs down, so you will run out of bandwidth quickly on that, especially when streaming video from youtube or whatnot.
FCC Regulating bandwidth? Maybe limiting radio spectrum but I've never heard of regulating bandwith?
dubbsy;297328 wrote:
I'm just tired of Cable One on principal alone. Be nice to get something a better if I can manage it. I was looking at switching to Cable One's limited plan until I saw their 1GB/month bandwidth cap (with charges there-after).Holy shit?!??! 1GB a MONTH???!? wtf?
I hate comcast but I enjoy my 30mbps / 15 mbps up. DOCSIS 3.0 is here too... up to like 150mbps right now available but its expensive. Comcrap has a 250gb cap on residential service....
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Jim;297338 wrote:
Holy shit?!??! 1GB a MONTH???!? wtf?
cable one website wrote:
For Economy Internet level, usage over initial 1 GB monthly limit will automatically incur charges. $10 will be charged for each additional incremental 1 GB. Only usage between 12 noon and 12 midnight counts against allocation. See AUP for details.It really is sad.
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Jim;297338 wrote:
FCC Regulating bandwidth? Maybe limiting radio spectrum but I've never heard of regulating bandwith?Let me rephrase: We are required to provide 1mbps down per our FCC licensing and we are required to allocate for "x" amount of users. If we provide service at 100% capacity we would only be able to provide ~1mbps speeds w/ no headroom, so basically we are limited indirectly to 1mbps.
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Qwest, I have the best high speed internet available and with the wireless router and cable my bill comes to $43.99 a month. and if you switch you sign a 2 year cantract that willc garuntee that your price wont go up for 2 years.... i have no complaints
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Jim;297338 wrote:
1mbps will only get you like 100K of downstream data... I'm suprised you can stream youtube at all at. You'll get faster speeds through your EVDO phone then 1mbps.I should rephrase that...you can't really stream, it's more like load, hit pause and wait 5 min for the video to be playable, then watch.
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Jim;297343 wrote:
It sounds almost criminal... like cell phone provider's who charge per kb.That's another area I've become well versed in as of late. When these providers are charging that it is because that is what they have to pay other providers when on their network....I'll explain later.
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s13coupe;297349 wrote:
Qwest, I have the best high speed internet available and with the wireless router and cable my bill comes to $43.99 a month. and if you switch you sign a 2 year cantract that willc garuntee that your price wont go up for 2 years.... i have no complaints1.5mbps? I have complaints just looking at that number.
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PSiedTSi;297356 wrote:
1.5mbps? I have complaints just looking at that number.Agreed. I'll try and get some updated info for you guys as to what our rates are based on mbps. Of course location will factor into what is actually going to be available (just like it is for EVERY DSL provider)
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Trafik Jamz;297354 wrote:
That's another area I've become well versed in as of late. When these providers are charging that it is because that is what they have to pay other providers when on their network....I'll explain later.ideaone is no different then midco or cable one in this regards. None of the 3 are tier1 providers.
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integra_gsr98;297381 wrote:
ideaone is no different then midco or cable one in this regards. None of the 3 are tier1 providers.Do midco and cableone even offer cell phone service? You are right that our cell phone service is basically reselling the VZW service, usually at a lower price (especially for business customers...saving Robert Gibb & Sons $700/mo on their cell phones vs Verizon for example) and with earlier nights/weekends (start @ 7 vs 9) but the area we get our butt kicked by VZW is with tethering to your phone. VZW charges us for every KB that our customers use while tethered...and of course we charge the customer for it as well. Untethered you have unlimited data w/ our plans. We also offer air cards for our customers who want to use their laptops anywhere we have coverage.
Now for phone/internet service IdeaOne, Midco, Cableone are all CLEC's (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) and Qwest is the ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier). IdeaOne acts more like an ILEC than most of the other telco's that offer phone/internet in Fargo in that we lay our own cable and are becoming less and less dependent on Qwest to provide our infrastructure/backbone....and in some areas we are the only provider of DSL/Phone service.
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