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| Update? Does not look like any provider is looking to upgrade anything anytime soon in this area... Over the years I looked for fiber or next-gen installers and have seen none. ATT & Armstrong are in this area. I see AT&T repairing stuff hear and there but no fiber trucks. Online and talking to reps seems to show there are no immediate plans to deploy anything. All the while I have seen and hear about many deployments going in in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Toledo, Akron, etc. I wonder if this area is being overlooked... 
I had ATT and got fed up with slower speeds. Now I have Armstrong and they usually upgrade speed when things start slowing. Well, speed on the modem has been slowing down to a near-crawl at times as of lately (didn't have a problem the last ~5 years) but no upgrade in the works... anyone hear anything?
Not only is internet slowing, the digital TV has been having many outages (even when analog is still working!) and many times I get a lot of pixelation/corruption/skipping recently.
I hear about many things that can be done... DOCSIS 3, cheaper fiber, going all digital with TV to save on channels/space , etc. yet I have not heard much.
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 dslwanterIt's comingPremium
join:2002-12-16
Niles, OH
 ·AT&T Midwest
| Jim,
you may want to give them a call and have them look at your service. Can you post some modem stats so I can make sure your levels are in spec?
As for upgrades, don't expect them to upgrade anything as they don't have the competition to. AT&T's U-Verse hasn't even hit Youngstown yet so don't expect it to hit any suburbs where Armstrong serves to give them any competition. Even with that said, the highest U-Verse package is what 18mbps? Armstrong could probably push their pro package to 15mbps giving that competition without having to upgrade to DOCSIS 3.0. Time Warner is running a similar protocol as Armstrong and is currently able to. All Armstrong would have to do is add capacity to nodes.
And yes fiber is cheaper. When they took over our township last year and had to rebuild our cable system to connect us to the Boardman head-end they did so with pure fiber, no coax at all on poles. I've researched Verizon FIOS and the set-up is very similar. Fiber optic cable straight to the house, connects to a fiber terminal box they mount on the side of the house, and coax into the house to connect to receivers and the modem (detailed pics are coming with my next review).
My service really is no better than yours....it just...works. But out here in BFE, for every 5-10 houses there in Boardman would equal maybe 3-5 here. So capacity, especially over fiber and with fiber nodes over a fiber system doesn't really become an issue. I have the same speed test results, give or take a few hundred kbps, no matter when I test, 1am, 6am, Noon, 5pm, or 9pm.
With the dwindling economy I don't expect much around here. I've asked them about DOCSIS 3.0 for my own curiosity, and I get "we're exploring it but have no deployment date".
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| said by dslwanter:My service really is no better than yours....it just...works. But out here in BFE, for every 5-10 houses there in Boardman would equal maybe 3-5 here. So capacity, especially over fiber and with fiber nodes over a fiber system doesn't really become an issue. I have the same speed test results, give or take a few hundred kbps, no matter when I test, 1am, 6am, Noon, 5pm, or 9pm. Actually it probably is better. Fiber is a dedicated line (similar to DSL, but much more capacity). Here in Boardman I am on regular cable line where I not only have limited capacity through the line, I am also fighting everyone else in the neighborhood for capacity at any given time. Some times usage is high and speed drops considerably. Would never get that issue with DSL, but Armstrong reps are much nicer than AT&T's and they do provide faster max speed over DSL.
said by dslwanter:With the dwindling economy I don't expect much around here. I've asked them about DOCSIS 3.0 for my own curiosity, and I get "we're exploring it but have no deployment date" Ya, there are plenty of news articles dated around '05 when they were 'exploring' it. But I think it will be a while before it becomes common anywhere, and not just because of the economy or lack of competition.
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