mi-fiber internet

[jdcyclone19]

Got notification that they will be putting fiber in my neighborhood! Finally can dump the centurylink DSL.

Anyone in the waukee area have them? Prices are so-so but better than the speed down & up I have right now.

https://mi-fiber.net/sign-up/residential-pricing/

 

[iowa_wildcat]

It is less money than Mediacom.

 

[dmclone]

Sounds good. This would be the only thing that would concern me. I'd like to see some actual numbers.

"In conjunction with the provision of this service, Mi-Fiber shall refrain from imposing any specific data caps on Customer’s usage. Nevertheless, in order to insure Customer uses Mi-Fiber’s service in a reasonable manner, should Customer’s usage exceed the average usage within the Customer’s Service Tier by five times (5X) or more, for two (2) consecutive billing months (excessive usage), Mi-Fiber shall reserve the right to promote Customer to the next higher speed tier upon appropriate notice. For Customers subscribing to Mi-Fiber’s Gigabit service, Mi-Fiber shall reserve the right to move Customer to an appropriate commercial plan. Mi-Fiber shall contact the Customer prior to moving Customer to the next Service Tier or imposing additional fees, should the Customer’s usage be identified as excessive"

 

[Jeremy]

We live in a 3 year old house in a new Waukee development. We had CenturyLink fiber the first 2 1/2 years and promptly switched to mi-fiber the second the infrastructure was all complete.

Despite being on the same full gigabit plan on both, the consistency on mi-fiber is unbeatable, not to mention it’s 40% less money.

mi-fiber is probably one of the only, if not the only, active fiber services in Iowa. Almost every fiber install is on passive lines that (in simple terms) means you share overall bandwidth and service with everybody else. With MF, the service has been rock solid and consistent for the first 6 months we’ve been on it.

No affiliation with MF obviously, just been really happy with the service and price compared to CL.

 

[jdcyclone19]

We live in a 3 year old house in a new Waukee development. We had CenturyLink fiber the first 2 1/2 years and promptly switched to mi-fiber the second the infrastructure was all complete.

Despite being on the same full gigabit plan on both, the consistency on mi-fiber is unbeatable, not to mention it’s 40% less money.

mi-fiber is probably one of the only, if not the only, active fiber services in Iowa. Almost every fiber install is on passive lines that (in simple terms) means you share overall bandwidth and service with everybody else. With MF, the service has been rock solid and consistent for the first 6 months we’ve been on it.

No affiliation with MF obviously, just been really happy with the service and price compared to CL.

This is awesome to hear. I have the 20/"2" with CL and costs ~ 45 a month. Even mi's lowest offering of 75/75 for $60 will be a huge improvement.

Do you use your own router or rent theirs? Have you tested your speed? How close to 1 gig are you?

 

[jdcyclone19]

Just hooked up to Mi-fiber 75/75 today from CL 12/.5. About $20 more a month and it is more cost effective for the 200 and 500 plans for $10 and $20 more but figured we didn’t need to spend the money on that since were use to 12mbps.

Photos of before and after install on Wifi via my asus google hub mesh system. Had 30mbps ~100ft outside the house at the back of the yard.

 

[somecyguy]

Photos of before and after install on Wifi via my asus google hub mesh system. Had 30mbps ~100ft outside the house at the back of the yard.

Well of course it's going to be faster, when you have caffeinated raptors on it.

 

[ArgentCy]

Must be nice to have two fiber options in one area. Lol can't beat this ping.

 

[MeowingCows]

My last apartment had CL fiber to it and even that didn't work that well... It never dropped completely too much, but there was only a few sites that I actually got my full 40 mbps from... Most of them gave me 1-2 mbps. Running a speedtest across town the State Capitol gave me ~1 mbps, and that's using my own router with vLAN tagging direct to their WAN. Had them out there to fix it, they did nothing and left. Putting their stock modem/router back in... same results.

New apartment in Ankeny has Mediacom cable provided. Rated at 60/5, getting ~70/10 with slightly lower ping, even over an older modem (same router after) and copper, not fiber. Much better experience, night and day difference... sadly. I had high hopes for CL fiber being good 'cuz, well, it was fiber. Letdown.

If I ever head out to Waukee in the future, I'll have to keep MiFiber in mind (or if they spread outside of there). Looks like a legitimate operation so far.