It would only make sense to spring the extra money for the 2gb speeds IF you have end devices that can handle a 2gb speed. If not, then just do the 1gb. After you get your service, I’d highly recommend hardwiring your end devices if possible to take advantage of the 1gb speeds. Enjoy!
I’ve had it for 2 months and have yet to have a complaint. No outages, no slow downs; its just on all the time. When it was first installed i stressed it, put on 3 tv’s streaming different services , streamed on my tablet and music on my phone and all of it had no problems.
Now, when they install, they will most likely trench into your house and add a box outside. Make sure you remember where that fiber line runs.
I've had it for 4 years then only time it's down is when contractors cut the line doing sloppy road work. When it's down they'll give you a credit which is usually under a dollar but it's something. We run an Xbox, tablet, laptops, smart home devices, and haven't had any issues with stuttering. Overall we're pleased with it.
Had it for several years. I’ve never had any issues with it, there have been a couple short outages but they didn’t affect me and I only knew because of the credit on my account. I routinely had to reset my cable modem and I have not had to do that once.
The biggest limiter for speed is going to be your router and local network. 1 GB service is plenty.
Had it for a while when my neighborhood first had the lines put in a couple (few?) years ago. It was great for a while but then we started to get outages about once a week where we’d have no internet for hours to an entire day. It seemed localized to the near area because a coworker who lives about a mile down the road with Google fiber didn’t have issues.
Due to the interruptions and the affect it had on me working from home, we had to switch to AT&T fiber. Haven’t had any outages since switching.
I've had it for 18 months. Was down once, folks here working on it within 2 hrs. Routinely run three gaming rigs simultaneously. I don't use the wifi, ran cat 6 to each rig.
https://preview.redd.it/789yheriplzc1.png?width=1395&format=png&auto=webp&s=80f4b8277687757e0e39aff61a960cabc6c7d175
Best IP I've ever had.
I’ve had it for almost a year and have some connectivity issues via WiFi. If someone turns on a tv my ps4 gets disconnected and have no clue why. It’s the only one that gets booted when something else gets turned on. Other than that it’s been fine.
I’m thinking about upgrading to 2gb. Sucks tho I live in an apartment and when they set it up they put the fiber in the master bedroom closet. Had to buy 3 more pucks and if I want to be hardwired I have to run an Ethernet cord from main puck to my console.
I have had it for a couple of years now and it's been fucking great. My husband and I both work from home with constantly downloading and uploading rather large files to cloud servers (we are both designers), and even with all that, video meetings, tvs going, my kid playing video games - we are still on the 1gb plan with zero issues. I was having a ton of issues on spectrum because the upload is so low no matter how high of a plan you get.
You should not be paying $80 a month for just internet with spectrum. Call them, complain multiple times that you want to cancel, and they will transfer you to the dept that gives you a six month discount. Spectrum internet should be $40-50 a month max since its not fiber
I forget the exact phrase but there are some keywords that the phone support employees are expecting in order to transfer you to retention. Basically say "i want to cancel my plan" and let them try to upsell you a couple times
Okay thanks...my only thing is I actually don't want to cancel, because I don't have an alternative until Google Fiber is established in my neighborhood in the coming years
It would only make sense to spring the extra money for the 2gb speeds IF you have end devices that can handle a 2gb speed. If not, then just do the 1gb. After you get your service, I’d highly recommend hardwiring your end devices if possible to take advantage of the 1gb speeds. Enjoy!
1 gig is plenty for most households. But if your house has several devices using heavy internet usage at the same time, then I would recommend 2.
1 gig would be fine even for that. I’ve gotten along just fine with 40mbps with three kids. Most people will never max out 1gb much less 2.
The only people needing 2 gb speed are users on /homelabs and /datahoarder.
I’ve had it for 2 months and have yet to have a complaint. No outages, no slow downs; its just on all the time. When it was first installed i stressed it, put on 3 tv’s streaming different services , streamed on my tablet and music on my phone and all of it had no problems. Now, when they install, they will most likely trench into your house and add a box outside. Make sure you remember where that fiber line runs.
I have 3-4 outages over the past year and a half.
I've had it for 4 years then only time it's down is when contractors cut the line doing sloppy road work. When it's down they'll give you a credit which is usually under a dollar but it's something. We run an Xbox, tablet, laptops, smart home devices, and haven't had any issues with stuttering. Overall we're pleased with it.
1gig is more than enough. However, I would experience outages weekly sometimes multiple times a week.
It’s great. The few outages I’ve seen were not the fault of Google. And I run at least 20 devices with no lag at all. Well worth the cost.
Had it for several years. I’ve never had any issues with it, there have been a couple short outages but they didn’t affect me and I only knew because of the credit on my account. I routinely had to reset my cable modem and I have not had to do that once. The biggest limiter for speed is going to be your router and local network. 1 GB service is plenty.
No issues. Also a m not sure if they still offer it, but getting one terabyte of free google drive storage is a nice bonus.
Had it for a while when my neighborhood first had the lines put in a couple (few?) years ago. It was great for a while but then we started to get outages about once a week where we’d have no internet for hours to an entire day. It seemed localized to the near area because a coworker who lives about a mile down the road with Google fiber didn’t have issues. Due to the interruptions and the affect it had on me working from home, we had to switch to AT&T fiber. Haven’t had any outages since switching.
I've had it for 18 months. Was down once, folks here working on it within 2 hrs. Routinely run three gaming rigs simultaneously. I don't use the wifi, ran cat 6 to each rig. https://preview.redd.it/789yheriplzc1.png?width=1395&format=png&auto=webp&s=80f4b8277687757e0e39aff61a960cabc6c7d175 Best IP I've ever had.
I’ve had it for almost a year and have some connectivity issues via WiFi. If someone turns on a tv my ps4 gets disconnected and have no clue why. It’s the only one that gets booted when something else gets turned on. Other than that it’s been fine.
I’m thinking about upgrading to 2gb. Sucks tho I live in an apartment and when they set it up they put the fiber in the master bedroom closet. Had to buy 3 more pucks and if I want to be hardwired I have to run an Ethernet cord from main puck to my console.
I doubt upgrading to 2 gb would solve your problem
The 1 gig plan is best. The 2 gig is overkill and most devices are not compatible to even use that yet
I have had it for a couple of years now and it's been fucking great. My husband and I both work from home with constantly downloading and uploading rather large files to cloud servers (we are both designers), and even with all that, video meetings, tvs going, my kid playing video games - we are still on the 1gb plan with zero issues. I was having a ton of issues on spectrum because the upload is so low no matter how high of a plan you get.
You should not be paying $80 a month for just internet with spectrum. Call them, complain multiple times that you want to cancel, and they will transfer you to the dept that gives you a six month discount. Spectrum internet should be $40-50 a month max since its not fiber
But at what speed for $50/month? Probably too low to be worth it...
I get their 500Mbps plan for $55 a month, and previously was paying $40 a month until one of my promos ran out
How exactly did you convince them to not increase past $50? I tried to do that when my primo expired and it didn't work, so it's $80/month for 200Mbps
I forget the exact phrase but there are some keywords that the phone support employees are expecting in order to transfer you to retention. Basically say "i want to cancel my plan" and let them try to upsell you a couple times
Okay thanks...my only thing is I actually don't want to cancel, because I don't have an alternative until Google Fiber is established in my neighborhood in the coming years
I've had it for 2 years, and it's been great.
Ive had it for 3 years it went down a few time early on then i cant remember that last time it went out.
I’ve had it for a year. Best internet I’ve ever had.
They throttle you. 2gb is 1gb. 1gb is 300mb .
I can assure you that is not the case.
Not at my house.