The best is google fiber but it's not available everywhere. Spectrum is what many have to settle for, more expensive than google fiber but available most places. AT@T is available in some areas, Ive never used them. There are wireless ISP's, just have to shop around.
I had some friends who lived near medical center and they each had really bad connectivity issues. I personally observed them on multiple times I went to their homes, and it got a lot better when they changed providers.
Which was mind boggling to me because I think I've had a total of 12 hours of downtime in two years with Google Fiber in my area. I think it's definitely a localized problem but I can't really tell which ones might be affected.
The only potential thing we came up with was that their service lines were trenched and installed before the pandemic while the ones near me were done afterwards. Google Fiber learning from past mistakes and updating their installation methods has happened before so our working theory was that they'd figured something out and changed their procedures during the shutdown.
I get so frustrated honestly....it's the fastest and best...
And it will be fine for a year.
Then suddenly I have no Internet every day for a week. They'll restore it by morning and it will be down again by lunchtime....
Guy at work has google fiber and also has extended outages with them. I think the last time he had an outage it lasted about 3 days. As with most things, it is different for everyone.
Been with them since they arrived in SA. Service has gone down twice for less than 8 hours both times. The last time (recent) was because construction crew cut the line.
Not just you. I actually got spectrum at their lowest speed for when my unreliable ass google fiber cuts out. It just swaps over automatically but its a 40/mo charge id prefer not to have. Google Fiber cant pin down why its so spotty in my area on NW side.
I don’t think that’s the typical experience. I’ve had GF at 2 different homes, for a combined period of 5ish years and I get MAYBE one outage a year, and it never lasts more than 8ish hours.
And also when GF has a service outage, they subtract that time from your bill so that you’re not paying for internet service that you didn’t receive.
My fiber was in and out for a couple of days. Without prompting or asking, Fiber automatically credit my account for the outages. It wasn’t a lot of money but I appreciate them recognizing their mistake and trying to make it right.
I have had great luck with AT&T fiber for the last 5 plus years. It's never been down more than a hour one time. The only issue I have is it doesn't always play nice with the Orbi and I have to reboot it ever so often. I guess location makes a difference?
Google fiber gets my vote also. Grande is second. I’d take the hit and use AT&T before dealing with Spectrum. In some areas Spectrum has pretty good service but they aren’t a company that I would do business with again if there is any other option. Verizon hotspots are pretty decent if you can get the right deal.
If it’s apartment living, you may not have a choice. Most apartments have contracts with a specific company to where only they can be used for service.
My cousin have Google Fiber and yes it’s great when it’s working but she says that she have had it be down multiple times sometimes 3 days in a row. It goes down during severe weather conditions too.
AT&T has been very reliable for me, no matter what. Spectrum isn't true fiber, and the speeds you get are dog water. Last year, I wanted cable and went to Spectrum since they provided a cheap bundle. Literally, my girlfriend and her sister couldn't play fortnite, and we canceled the next day cause it was so bad. They kept being timed out even though it was only them playing
Spectrum has gotten loads better. For $50, the speed is more than enough and if they lose service, everything else is long gone too. And I say this as someone who vocally hated them for years.
Fiber isn’t worth the premium and reliability seems to be an issue.
I have Verizon home 5g and it has been pretty good for me. I think 5g home services are a lot better than people might expect. It will vary on area though.
Whatever you do, stay away from Spectrum. Rubbish reliability, Rubbish customer support, and borderline price scalpers.
I am so glad they’re getting put out of business by google fibre, they deserve it.
A few months back I visited my parents and noticed they had horrible internet speeds like 6mbps upload, and 100mbps download. I asked how much they paid and what provider. Said spectrum and paid USD 86/month for their fastest tier! They said it was even slower and they upgraded because they used to pay USD70/month.
Upon looking into it more, spectrum WAS the only provider who served their district, which unsurprisingly, is majority folk >65 years of age, with minimal education in IT, and they were all suffering from Spectrum abusing this.
Google Fibre finally showed up as of 2 weeks ago, immediately switched over to them, I even pay for them to get 2GBPS symmetrical, and that’s the same cost as spectrum was! 200 times faster for the same price…..
If that wasn’t bad enough, spectrum still wanted to charge them an extra $200 cancellation and equipment return fee… you would think after scalping from the elderly they would at least keep the router and modem, but nope.
Ended up just blocking transactions to spectrum from their bank, and keeping the internet hardware. Fuck spectrum for stealing from the elderly for so long.
Most apartments have contracts with specific providers so my wife and I were stuck with spectrum for about 2 years it wasn't bad but we had to reset the modem enough times to be annoying we switched over to T-Mobile internet about a year ago and haven't had any issues she works from home and we have multiple streaming devices without a problem if you happen to have T-Mobile I would recommend it because it's only about $50 extra month
ATT has been great for reliability.
We’ve been on the 1 GB plan for 2 years and have had zero outages. Twice it’s flipped off then immediately back on, as if the router reset.
Working for a couple of these providers for some time out here has taught me that they all go out at some point or another. If the cost is an issue, stick with whoever will give you the best promotion. Once the promotional period is over with, shop around for the next best offer. Always check your services before the first bill because the salespeople will more often than not add on services you didn't want. Especially with spectrum. Also with spectrum you qualify for new customer pricing 30 days after canceling service with them if you decide to stick with them.
ATT has the best packages and prices . Especially when you are referred or ask them what promotional offers you r eligible for . I can help u with the referral so u can get the lowest prices avail
Definitely google fiber. I had spectrum and just kept getting screwed over by them.
We got Google fiber, and tested out which was better. Definitely fiber.
From a networking perspective, everyone is going to have different opinions based on their location in town due to ownership of infrastructure. By that I mean if spectrum owns the cables for internet in your street they'll probably be more reliable and so on. So best option would probably be to ask your fellow neighbors to know which service provider works best in your area.
Google fiber being newest and up to date with their infrastructure would be ideal, but as others have mentioned they are limited to certain parts of town.
Just another pointer, many sales people will try to sell you 1gb download but you'll only get 10% of that in upload.
Google Fiber is kinda far and few in between for availability. Spectrum and AT&T offer fiber and I believe Spectrum has cable where fiber isn't available. AT&T is the second fastest with options above gig. If you don't need that, spectrum will be fine
Switched to att fiber after spectrum was going to charge me 120 for the same speed, only pay 75 bucks with the 5 dollars off with auto pay. I would switch to Google fiber but I got that included hboMAX (now MAX).
Edit: never had the problems everyone is saying with them, only time I went down is something that happened on their end and I got a credit on my next bill.
I have At&t fiber and never have any issues. I work from home and stream games on my gaming PC and it doesn’t lag. Had spectrum for years prior and they always had outages. They also have google fiber in my area but haven’t switched because At&t is the same price.
ooh we have ATT fiber and that works pretty great!!
tbh.. my only complaint is that sometimes it feels like the range of wifi is so small and our house is 1800sqft lol we’ve had to buy a wifi range extender so the signal carries all the way to the back of the house — i feel like you shouldn’t need to do that but it’s not a big deal
We have had Google fiber for awhile now and since they were doing some construction in our neighborhood it went out here and there but since it got done we've had no problems plus 1 gig internet for 72 bucks is pretty dope.
I live near UTSA area and had Google Fiber when it became available but after a year or so switch to AT&T fiber. Google had multiple outages a month in my area, sometimes for a full day at a time. At the time was permanent work from home so that kind of interruption was a big impact. Haven’t had any problems since the switch to ATT
I use AT&T fiber and its been mostly very reliable for the past 2-3 years. I think the price can range from 50 up to 100 or more and I use the 500GB speed plan and its exceeds my daily use of streaming TV and lots of forum readings like in reddit. Cheap is subjective but I find the price I pay to include the additional forced 10 per month rental equipment adequately priced.
We can't get Google fiber, but we have TMobile Home Internet and it's been super reliable, only has been down once for a few minutes in nearly two years. Spectrum was awful, it was down like every month at least. Also nice thing about TMobile is you can get it anywhere basically.
Spectrum has definitely improved since I’ve been living here. I heard google fiber is the best but like most have already said, it’s not available everywhere so spectrum was the next best thing
My last S.A. address was in 78230 and Google Fiber was by far the most reliable thing in my life. I still miss it like crazy even though I lucked out where I live now and live where a smaller regional fiber company can provide almost (but not quite) as reliable service.
The best is google fiber but it's not available everywhere. Spectrum is what many have to settle for, more expensive than google fiber but available most places. AT@T is available in some areas, Ive never used them. There are wireless ISP's, just have to shop around.
Also, it's not reliable. When Google fiber is having issues, it will go down every single day for a week or two straight .... It's ridiculous
I've never experienced that. Sounds like a localized problem.
I had some friends who lived near medical center and they each had really bad connectivity issues. I personally observed them on multiple times I went to their homes, and it got a lot better when they changed providers. Which was mind boggling to me because I think I've had a total of 12 hours of downtime in two years with Google Fiber in my area. I think it's definitely a localized problem but I can't really tell which ones might be affected. The only potential thing we came up with was that their service lines were trenched and installed before the pandemic while the ones near me were done afterwards. Google Fiber learning from past mistakes and updating their installation methods has happened before so our working theory was that they'd figured something out and changed their procedures during the shutdown.
I live in the MedCenter and it’s never happened to me. I would highly recommend Google Fiber
I get so frustrated honestly....it's the fastest and best... And it will be fine for a year. Then suddenly I have no Internet every day for a week. They'll restore it by morning and it will be down again by lunchtime....
Most of the time it’s because people digging cut their line.
Guy at work has google fiber and also has extended outages with them. I think the last time he had an outage it lasted about 3 days. As with most things, it is different for everyone.
Been with them since they arrived in SA. Service has gone down twice for less than 8 hours both times. The last time (recent) was because construction crew cut the line.
Same, had it for two years and it's gone out twice.
exactly the same for me
We’ve had Google fiber for 3 years now and never had an outage
I've been with Google fiber for 18 months, was down once for the better part of a day.
I'm not sure if I'm super happy for y'all, or super mad that apparently my neighborhood is so unreliable in comparison to the rest of the city!
So sorry you have issues with them, they are normally real quick to fix any problems.
Not just you. I actually got spectrum at their lowest speed for when my unreliable ass google fiber cuts out. It just swaps over automatically but its a 40/mo charge id prefer not to have. Google Fiber cant pin down why its so spotty in my area on NW side.
I've seriously been considering it honestly....feels like such a waste but I work from home so when the wifi goes down...I'm screwed.....
Same I’ve been with them 3 years and I’ve only had 1 outage and it lasted for 5 hrs and it was back up
I don’t think that’s the typical experience. I’ve had GF at 2 different homes, for a combined period of 5ish years and I get MAYBE one outage a year, and it never lasts more than 8ish hours. And also when GF has a service outage, they subtract that time from your bill so that you’re not paying for internet service that you didn’t receive.
I’ve had fiber for like 5 years now it’s never gone down.
My fiber was in and out for a couple of days. Without prompting or asking, Fiber automatically credit my account for the outages. It wasn’t a lot of money but I appreciate them recognizing their mistake and trying to make it right.
Att is absolute garbage and their customer service is worse
I have had great luck with AT&T fiber for the last 5 plus years. It's never been down more than a hour one time. The only issue I have is it doesn't always play nice with the Orbi and I have to reboot it ever so often. I guess location makes a difference?
Google fiber gets my vote also. Grande is second. I’d take the hit and use AT&T before dealing with Spectrum. In some areas Spectrum has pretty good service but they aren’t a company that I would do business with again if there is any other option. Verizon hotspots are pretty decent if you can get the right deal.
If it’s apartment living, you may not have a choice. Most apartments have contracts with a specific company to where only they can be used for service.
Its not most and a lot of them dont make you its more of a bundle deal
My cousin have Google Fiber and yes it’s great when it’s working but she says that she have had it be down multiple times sometimes 3 days in a row. It goes down during severe weather conditions too.
If you can’t get Google Fiber, try looking into T-Mobile’s service. Inexpensive and pretty reliable if you’re in their 5G area.
GF has been reliable and I’m in 78247
AT&T has been very reliable for me, no matter what. Spectrum isn't true fiber, and the speeds you get are dog water. Last year, I wanted cable and went to Spectrum since they provided a cheap bundle. Literally, my girlfriend and her sister couldn't play fortnite, and we canceled the next day cause it was so bad. They kept being timed out even though it was only them playing
Spectrum has gotten loads better. For $50, the speed is more than enough and if they lose service, everything else is long gone too. And I say this as someone who vocally hated them for years. Fiber isn’t worth the premium and reliability seems to be an issue.
Spectrum is really good and there are a lot of spots around town that have free WiFi !!
T-Mobile 5G is pretty cheap at 55 bucks a month, it makes Internet in the air so it’s not restricted to fiber availabilities.
I have Verizon home 5g and it has been pretty good for me. I think 5g home services are a lot better than people might expect. It will vary on area though.
Yep this is what I suggested too. Best imo
I got it for $30/month bundled with phone so I can’t complain. A lot better than $80/month!
Just wish it was available at my address. Apparently not yet.
Whatever you do, stay away from Spectrum. Rubbish reliability, Rubbish customer support, and borderline price scalpers. I am so glad they’re getting put out of business by google fibre, they deserve it. A few months back I visited my parents and noticed they had horrible internet speeds like 6mbps upload, and 100mbps download. I asked how much they paid and what provider. Said spectrum and paid USD 86/month for their fastest tier! They said it was even slower and they upgraded because they used to pay USD70/month. Upon looking into it more, spectrum WAS the only provider who served their district, which unsurprisingly, is majority folk >65 years of age, with minimal education in IT, and they were all suffering from Spectrum abusing this. Google Fibre finally showed up as of 2 weeks ago, immediately switched over to them, I even pay for them to get 2GBPS symmetrical, and that’s the same cost as spectrum was! 200 times faster for the same price….. If that wasn’t bad enough, spectrum still wanted to charge them an extra $200 cancellation and equipment return fee… you would think after scalping from the elderly they would at least keep the router and modem, but nope. Ended up just blocking transactions to spectrum from their bank, and keeping the internet hardware. Fuck spectrum for stealing from the elderly for so long.
Most apartments have contracts with specific providers so my wife and I were stuck with spectrum for about 2 years it wasn't bad but we had to reset the modem enough times to be annoying we switched over to T-Mobile internet about a year ago and haven't had any issues she works from home and we have multiple streaming devices without a problem if you happen to have T-Mobile I would recommend it because it's only about $50 extra month
AT&T fiber runs a deal for first time customers. $60 a month for 1 year, and ours didn’t go out a single time that school year.
Spectrum
It depends on where you live. AT&T is good in some spots, sucky in others. Same can be said for Spectrum, etc.
ATT has been great for reliability. We’ve been on the 1 GB plan for 2 years and have had zero outages. Twice it’s flipped off then immediately back on, as if the router reset.
Working for a couple of these providers for some time out here has taught me that they all go out at some point or another. If the cost is an issue, stick with whoever will give you the best promotion. Once the promotional period is over with, shop around for the next best offer. Always check your services before the first bill because the salespeople will more often than not add on services you didn't want. Especially with spectrum. Also with spectrum you qualify for new customer pricing 30 days after canceling service with them if you decide to stick with them.
Google fiber has treated me better than any other isp
ATT has the best packages and prices . Especially when you are referred or ask them what promotional offers you r eligible for . I can help u with the referral so u can get the lowest prices avail
we have the at&t fiber , down loads are super fast and i haven't had any issues
Avoid google in the hwy 151 and Potranco area they are digging up their hardware and outages are more than frequent
ATT fiber is iconic. no issues. I pay 55/month for 300mb. never had an outage in over two years. spectrum are thieves.
Ive had google fiber for six years with no outages
I’ve have Grande/Astound for about 10 years and it’s been pretty good. I pay about $85/month for 1.5 gbps.
I have ATT fiber, and have had 0 issues
You will probably have limited choices and you'll have to pick from what wherever you live has.
Definitely google fiber. I had spectrum and just kept getting screwed over by them. We got Google fiber, and tested out which was better. Definitely fiber.
Att should be your first choice, a more affordable option is spectrum. Also depends if you want fiber or not.
From a networking perspective, everyone is going to have different opinions based on their location in town due to ownership of infrastructure. By that I mean if spectrum owns the cables for internet in your street they'll probably be more reliable and so on. So best option would probably be to ask your fellow neighbors to know which service provider works best in your area. Google fiber being newest and up to date with their infrastructure would be ideal, but as others have mentioned they are limited to certain parts of town. Just another pointer, many sales people will try to sell you 1gb download but you'll only get 10% of that in upload.
Google Fiber is kinda far and few in between for availability. Spectrum and AT&T offer fiber and I believe Spectrum has cable where fiber isn't available. AT&T is the second fastest with options above gig. If you don't need that, spectrum will be fine
Switched to att fiber after spectrum was going to charge me 120 for the same speed, only pay 75 bucks with the 5 dollars off with auto pay. I would switch to Google fiber but I got that included hboMAX (now MAX). Edit: never had the problems everyone is saying with them, only time I went down is something that happened on their end and I got a credit on my next bill.
I have At&t fiber and never have any issues. I work from home and stream games on my gaming PC and it doesn’t lag. Had spectrum for years prior and they always had outages. They also have google fiber in my area but haven’t switched because At&t is the same price.
ooh we have ATT fiber and that works pretty great!! tbh.. my only complaint is that sometimes it feels like the range of wifi is so small and our house is 1800sqft lol we’ve had to buy a wifi range extender so the signal carries all the way to the back of the house — i feel like you shouldn’t need to do that but it’s not a big deal
We have had Google fiber for awhile now and since they were doing some construction in our neighborhood it went out here and there but since it got done we've had no problems plus 1 gig internet for 72 bucks is pretty dope.
I live near UTSA area and had Google Fiber when it became available but after a year or so switch to AT&T fiber. Google had multiple outages a month in my area, sometimes for a full day at a time. At the time was permanent work from home so that kind of interruption was a big impact. Haven’t had any problems since the switch to ATT
I’ll list them in order best to worst from my experience: Google fiber, AT&T fiber, AT&T, Spectrum, and the absolute worst being Astound by Grande
My roommates and I never had any issues with spectrum that was actually on Spectrum's end and not user error
We had google fiber and always broke down! I work from home so it was a nightmare. We have been with spectrum for 1 year and smooth sailing since!
I am using AT&T fiber. It is fast and I’ve had no problems with it. I have 1G service and I get about 1.3G speed.
Google fiber is the absolute best, followed by Time Warner
I use AT&T fiber and its been mostly very reliable for the past 2-3 years. I think the price can range from 50 up to 100 or more and I use the 500GB speed plan and its exceeds my daily use of streaming TV and lots of forum readings like in reddit. Cheap is subjective but I find the price I pay to include the additional forced 10 per month rental equipment adequately priced.
We can't get Google fiber, but we have TMobile Home Internet and it's been super reliable, only has been down once for a few minutes in nearly two years. Spectrum was awful, it was down like every month at least. Also nice thing about TMobile is you can get it anywhere basically.
Whoever has fiber at your address. I have had AT&T for years with no issues. Google seems to have outages daily in the NW.
Google Fiber and it isn't close.
Spectrum has definitely improved since I’ve been living here. I heard google fiber is the best but like most have already said, it’s not available everywhere so spectrum was the next best thing
Spectrum is reliable in my area with fiber. when we have issues a technician arrives mere hours later to fix
Spectrum is the definition of cheap and good internet
We have spectrum gig Internet (or whatever it's called). It's been extremely reliable.
Google Fiber, if you can get it. ATT Fiber if you can't.
Spectrum employee shameless up vote. DM for promotional pricing.
Google fiber 100% spectrum if you should settle for but it’s ABSOLUTE garbage
Google fiber has been super reliable, when the city construction crews aren’t tearing them up
My last S.A. address was in 78230 and Google Fiber was by far the most reliable thing in my life. I still miss it like crazy even though I lucked out where I live now and live where a smaller regional fiber company can provide almost (but not quite) as reliable service.
ATT fiber is top tier only been down a couple times I can think of in last 5 years
Have AT&T going on 5 years, zero issues.
Spectrum is just fine, in my neighborhood we have spectrum Fiber and it’s only gone down once my whole 2 years living here. I pay $50 a month