Speed is as advertised so far, have to see if it's consistent throughout the days/weeks. Need to try playing some games tonight see how that feels, and hear if the kids have any issues with the xbox this afternoon.
MetroNet Ames
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There is a fiber line, the box or whatever that people in the neighborhood get plugged into happens to be in my backyard. The fiber line from that to my house will be buried, they say 2 weeks but I’m guessing longer, but who knows.
Theres a box on the outside of the house that the outside fiber runs to, then through a hole to a wall plate inside the house. Then from there to their modem thing.
They run a fiber line to a box on the side of your house. They then run a line from the fiber box to a signal converter inside the house and then run a Ethernet line from the converter to the router/modem. At least thats how my fiber internet is set up
When it works it's been awesome in Rochester but I've had it for a few months and had 3 outages.
For what it's worth when ours was installed the cable was buried the next day (I also got the "it'll be buried within 2 weeks" line).
For what it's worth when ours was installed the cable was buried the next day (I also got the "it'll be buried within 2 weeks" line).
Speeds were great for most of the day, but have fallen off a cliff in the last hour or so. Speedtest within the Metronet network is still great, anything outside is *******, 5-15mbps depending on the test site or server location. There is a thread about similar issues on the Metronet subreddit, not from Ames but similar slow speeds between 7pm and 11pm or so.
This could be a very short lived experiment.
This could be a very short lived experiment.
Out of curiosity, what was the install cost? I was considering doing the same thing you did - Have Metronet installed and keep Mediacom service for a short bit while I tested the new service, knowing that I would have to eat the install cost if Metronet sucked.
Install was $25, if you sign up for automatic payments they credit you the $25 back but I assume I won't get that if I cancel in the next few days. My thought was the same as yours, if it works then I'll save a decent amount every month, if it doesn't then I'm not out a bunch.
I ended up plugging the Mediacom line back in last night, I'll test the Metronet this afternoon and then later this evening during prime time.
My understanding of Fiber is there are no issues of bandwidth because it is a specific line.
Inside their network I think that’s true, but where it all meets and is sent out to other networks I assume there are still routers that need to be able to route all the traffic. My speed tests to Metronet servers was 500/500 the whole time, but anything outside their fiber network was awful.
As I kind of expected the connection went from fine to **** around 8pm, back to Mediacom. Maybe I'll try Centurylink, according to their website my address is eligible for 3mbps "high speed" internet!
Metronet is having system wide issues right now.
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Ames: MetroNet internet and TV installed 09-04.
Except for one of their employees cutting the fiber optic line across the street and putting both out for 48 hours the internet has been working fairly well Except - ditto- Speed tests to Metronet servers was 500/500 the whole time, but anything outside their fiber network is awful.
TV is another story. There has yet to be a 24 hour period where it functions properly. Tech session after tech session, phone. email and in person, nothing, in fact last tech guy to appear essentially said it can't be fixed. Hard to believe but true.
So the research starts for new service, although if it keeps working I will probably keep internet.
Apparently the fine folks at the City of Ames did not do a great job of vetting MetroNet TV.
Except for one of their employees cutting the fiber optic line across the street and putting both out for 48 hours the internet has been working fairly well Except - ditto- Speed tests to Metronet servers was 500/500 the whole time, but anything outside their fiber network is awful.
TV is another story. There has yet to be a 24 hour period where it functions properly. Tech session after tech session, phone. email and in person, nothing, in fact last tech guy to appear essentially said it can't be fixed. Hard to believe but true.
So the research starts for new service, although if it keeps working I will probably keep internet.
Apparently the fine folks at the City of Ames did not do a great job of vetting MetroNet TV.
So, when you say anything outside of their fiber network is awful, that's basically any internet site you visit or streaming Netflix, etc?