Appreciate it.

Lincoln and what cross street? Hoping closer to the lake.

Ahhhh love me some monopolistic behavior in plain sight.

Are Spectrum and Cox merging now? I know Spectrum and TWC did.

Cox doesn’t offer fiber to the home. They offer a fiber to the node service, with cable service to the home. This is not equivalent, as it maxes at 1Gb down and has severely capped upload speeds (IIRC it’s a sad 35Mb), versus FiOS which is 1:1 speeds. Cox also has data caps. It’s also mad expensive… I’m paying $160/m for 300/30 speeds and an unlimited plan, versus $80/m for 1000/1000 and unlimited on Fiber.

I was on AT&T Fiber for years before buying a new home and being stuck with Cox. It just takes me back to my years in NC on TWC. I have experienced so many issues since moving to this home a year ago. You will never convince me that any cable plan is better than FiOS.

I really appreciate the insight. Glad to hear they are actively working on things a few streets over. Will keep my fingers crossed for fiber before the end of this year.

I’m on Lakeland Ave. Summit Ave, the next street over, has had fiber since we bought this house in Nov ‘21, but we don’t.

Here’s hoping that Lakeland to Marlowe is a single node. Seems small enough to be.

I’m paying $160/m for halfway decent internet from Cox and it still pales in comparison to what I used to get for $70/m from AT&T. I hate cable internet. It drops too often, has too much packet loss, costs too much, and the upload speeds are god awful.

It does but it is applied in blocks. Unfortunately I have it 1 block in 1 direction and 6 blocks in the other. So basically my node is one of the only ones right in the heart of Lakewood that doesn’t have it.

Fiber isn’t phone line. It’s fiber optic cable. It’s so far above the capabilities of cable internet.

Also, it’s not new. FiOS directly to consumers (and not just businesses) has been around for like 15 years now. Tons of providers use it. It is the backbone of every major internet provider. The faster cable speeds are often due to fiber to the node setups bringing the bottlenecks of cable internet closer to the houses. AT&T, Google, Verizon, and many others have been doing direct Fiber internet to homes for waaaaay more than 5 years, offering 1-5Gbps speeds for half the cost of cable internet.

Any specific streets you’ve seen the signs?

I had it for years when I lived in NC and going back to cable internet has been such a bummer. And 2.5x the cost 🙄 So ready to ditch Cox.