These are teaser rates, they'll go up after 6 months (most likely). Or, it involves a 2 year contract, where the tail of the contract pays them back for whatever front end inducement they had to provide you. They may also be trying to head off municipal fiber by trying to lock people into term contracts. Troutdale City Council voted last night to join in an intergovernmental agreement with other municipalities within Multnomah County to help fund a publicly-owned fiber feasibility study. Troutdale's portion is just a few thousand dollars. Also, Comcast provides service over coax. They do have fiber, but not that you have access to except by going through their coax. With any cable service, your upstream bandwidth is much more limited than with a fiber service.
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > Two guys from Comcast just stopped by because they're upgrading their > fiber lines in the neighborhood (Frontier did the same thing last autumn). > They told me they could provide 150Mb download speed with 2 phone lines > (voice and fax, same numbers) for about $66/month. I don't know if that > includes a static IP address, though. I wonder how they can provide 10x the > speed I currently have for about 2/3rds my current price. > > What have been your experiences with Comcast/Xfinity? > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
