Sonic Internet - anyone have any experience?

[jayjr1105]

It's not all that hard to lure in customers from cable internet providers which are almost unanimously hated across the US. Just offer symmetrical speeds and have "fiber" somewhere in your name.

 

[OVERKILL]

It's not all that hard to lure in customers from cable internet providers which are almost unanimously hated across the US. Just offer symmetrical speeds and have "fiber" somewhere in your name.

Bell is the despised entity up here, but the deals they've offered on their fibre service has grown their customer base considerably despite that. My old cable ISP, which was a great local company, simply couldn't compete.

I've had a 10GbE SFP+ on backorder for like the last 6 months (seems to be a supply shortage), but my UDM-SE also has a 2.5GbE uplink so I'm not giving up any bandwidth currently, but would be if I upgraded to a faster plan (which I don't have any plans of doing at the present time, because of the deal I got on the 1.5/1 service). It's connected to my switch via a 10GbE SFP+, and my AP has a 2.5Gbit uplink. My old Mac Pro is still chugging along with 2x1Gbit NIC's, but it's nice to be a able to get full line speed downloading and seeding torrents.

 

[y_p_w]

It's not all that hard to lure in customers from cable internet providers which are almost unanimously hated across the US. Just offer symmetrical speeds and have "fiber" somewhere in your name.

Most are trying to sell multiple services that might be either bundled or discounted. Nearly all have VoIP phone service, including otherwise internet only ISPs. Comcast has TV/cable, VoIP, and cellular service, as does AT&T. Claiming “fiber” gets the customer in the door to upsell for something else.

 

[alarmguy]

Fiber providers selling residential speeds over 1GB's is stupid. 99% of consumer equipment is still limited to gigabit. Most people wouldn't know the difference between 200/200 and 2000/2000.

No, it's smart business practice. Selling bandwidth no one needs = big profits. It's the public that is ignorant, the internet providers are smart, extracting as much money as they can. Nothing wrong with that, that is the purpose of being in business.
No doubt that almost all American homes would get along just fine with 300/300 service. (I say "almost all" to protect myself from comments of those who will say otherwise) Anyway if your barely needing the 300/300 why not have the providers sell you 500/500 or 1gb service, pure profit for them.

The only thing a little dishonest is you will most likely get a garbage router with the cheapest service in the hope that you will then want to upgrade to faster service not realizing it was the setup and not the service that was slowing you down.

 

[PandaBear]

Dad has it, works pretty well for what he was doing (just youtube all day). He was on Comcast and Comcast oversold his area so he was not getting the speed he needed, get frustrated and decided to go fiber. It was like $65 a month or something but worth it for him. However they force you to pay for a landline as well for no reason (just to get extra $ I think).

I can't tell the difference for what I was doing at his place vs my own Comcast at home that's 150mbps and $35/month. It was faster than enough for me. It's good to have competition to keep cable monopoly honest. T Mo 5G is also only around $50/month too.