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Ralph Mowery

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All depends on the system. Here in NJ cable is fast, reliable, and the
best bang for the buck. That's the only choice I have. Some places
have choices, eg Verizon Fios as an option. That got close to where
I am, but then they curtailed the deployment. That was maybe ten years
ago, IDK what they are doing now, just that it ain't here. I had
DSL briefly, before the cable company upgraded and had internet available.
It cost more and was a few hundred Kbps.

It must depend on the system, and maybe where you are at in the system.

I am well pleased with Spectrum for the internet. I get the 200 mb
service and it is almost never down. About 3 miles up the road and
closer to the main equipment several are complaing about bad and poor
service and being out much of the time.

I also have the phone over the cable by their modem. Sometimes it
breaks up vrey badly, but unpluging it for about 30 seconds and it is
good to go for another week or more.

Before that about 3 years ago the service would go down here about every
6 months and I would have to get a man out and most of the time they
said a fuse had blown up the line. Once they did replace the cable from
my house which is under ground to the above line at the pole that is
about 200 feet away from the house.

A few days ago we had a lot of rain (been that way for months) and some
wind. There was no snow or ice. I think the temperture was in the 60's.
The power went out, but when I got the generator up and running the
internet was up. The power stayed out for an hour after I got the
generator going, but the internet stayed going.

I am out in the country so it is either cable or whatever Windstream
(the telephone company ) offers. If I lived in the city I could get
the fiber. It is a small town of maybe 30,000 people . The local
government got on the band wagon at the start and the system is very
fast or can be if you want to pay for it, the fastest in the state. I
got a tour of the fiber building and it is impressive inside. They also
have 2 big generators that can power not only their equipment, but if
needed the emergency services of the county.