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Birmingham Area OptionsI currently live in a Bright House area, but will likely be buying a house in the Charter area. Can someone tell me what my Internet speed options will likely be? The TV offerings look about the same, but the Internet is more important to me (I work from home).
Is someone willing to give me a brief breakdown of speed choices, as well as what type of RG I will get? I'm considering getting my own before we move, but want to make sure it will work with Charter.
Thanks in advance!
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Charter offers one speed for residential - 60 megs down, 4 up. I find it to be reliable.
Not sure what RG is, but if you're referring to the cable modem, they supply one capable of at least 4-channel bonding as part of their service for no (itemized) charge. You can use your own modem if it's on their supported "list." |
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Thanks. RG = Residential Gateway, which is the cable modem. Unfortunately, Bright House currently has a top speed of 150 down, 10 up. I'm going to be sorry to lose that! |
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Charter has Business Service with more options, and you can sign up for that. More $, but may be worth it to you to investigate. |
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Thanks again. It won't be until May or June but I'm investigating all options. |
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CoolMan join:2008-01-07 Maryville, TN ARRIS BGW210-700 Netgear R7000
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said by jwt0001:The TV offerings look about the same, but the Internet is more important to me (I work from home). You will lose some sports options when switching over, such as access to pro sports subscription packages (NBA League Pass, MLB Extra Innings, NHL Center Ice), NBATV, Premier League Extra time, out of market national feeds of regional sports networks, Pac-12 Network, and probably a few more I have left out. Access to all the ESPN Full Court and GamePlan games included with only having to subscribe to sports pass with Bright House (with Charter you have to pay for these individually for the entire season). Although it sounds like this may not be of a huge concern for you since you state internet is more important. Just thought I would point it out though. |
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Whoops! You just hit a soft spot. I am a transplanted Ohioan and need my Cleveland baseball and basketball fix. I know I can get them in online format, but prefer TV versions. RSNs aren't as important... This is where I have been going back and forth with just getting Internet from cable and getting DirecTV for everything else, even though it might cost a little more. Thanks, I'll keep this in mind. |
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CoolMan join:2008-01-07 Maryville, TN ARRIS BGW210-700 Netgear R7000
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said by jwt0001: Thanks, I'll keep this in mind.
No problem! I use DirecTV for TV service for this very reason, sports! Internet only with Charter. I still don't get Pac-12 though with DirecTV, but pretty much everything else is covered. WatchESPN and FOXSports Go is coming in less than a month in addition. I like how I get dual feeds in HD (home/away) broadcasters for NBA League Pass (they do the same for the vast majority of games on MLB EI and NHL CI as well). |
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said by jwt0001:I am a transplanted Ohioan and need my Cleveland baseball and basketball fix. Also, I can confirm that with DirecTV you get every Cleveland Cavaliers game with the local FS Ohio broadcasters and in HD on NBA League Pass. You also get the pregame and post game shows if you have the sports pack. I am pretty sure it's the same for the Cleveland Indians as well but that package is out of season at the moment and as long as they don't play some games on Cleveland local OTA broadcast channels you should get all the local announcers as well on MLB Extra Innings (from SportsTime Ohio). If they happen to play on local OTA broadcast you would just have to watch those with the opponents broadcasters. The only other exception would be when the Cavaliers are playing your local team that claims the area, which is Memphis and Atlanta in your case (that's the same here as well). You have to watch their local announcers unfortunately since they claim you as local, but only when they play them. This exception would apply to Indians games as well but only when they are playing the Atlanta Braves, you would have to watch their announcers for those match-ups. Just a little FYI in case you weren't aware already. |
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Actually have all those issues with Bright House, except that you can't get the Memphis channel that carries the game. That's when I switch to the online version, which offers the correct feed. I used to have Directv in Ohio so know the basics of this. |
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CoolMan join:2008-01-07 Maryville, TN ARRIS BGW210-700 Netgear R7000
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said by jwt0001:Actually have all those issues with Bright House, except that you can't get the Memphis channel that carries the game. Yeah, that's an issue with cable (both Charter and Comcast) here as well. If Memphis and Atlanta are both playing at the same time they default to showing whichever is closer proximity to you, here it's always the Hawks. In Nashville, it's always the Grizzlies. SportSouth will tell people it's how the "complicated" broadcasting/distribution works due to Atlanta being closer to us then Memphis but it's not entirely true as I get BOTH teams when they play at the same time (such as back on 1/31 for example) with DirecTV. Usually Atlanta is on the main SportSouth and the Grizzlies on the Alternate feed or vice versa. They are NEVER both blacked out on DirecTV. Even folks without League Pass can see both games. I think if Charter would carry the Alternate feeds of SportSouth they could show both as well, but they don't. Comcast doesn't either. |
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I believe you can still get the Ultra plan in most areas which is 100 down, 5 up (you'd have to call to order since its not shown online). However it is about 2x the price of the standard 60Mbps plan. |
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Good luck. Don't expect to stream Netflix without it buffering constantly, and it'll be SD if it works *at all*.
They use one upstream provider (Cogent) for everything, and saturate it beyond capacity so it sucks the big time pretty much all the time.
Think random timeouts and buffering with no resolution at any random time of the day.
And this even happens to those that get a fiber connect directly from the Leeds master headend.
It was so bad that Opelika Power Services had to switch to using a different upstream provider for data services... |
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said by wizkid6: Don't expect to stream Netflix without it buffering constantly, and it'll be SD if it works *at all*. That's pretty bad, and surprises me, because I've never had any ongoing problems streaming Netflix. Does everyone in your area have the same experience you have with Netflix? What equipment [modem/router] do you use? |
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said by wizkid6:Good luck. Don't expect to stream Netflix without it buffering constantly, and it'll be SD if it works *at all*. I'm with msmisfit ... I've not had any issue with netflix. Outside Montgomery (Prattville) it's been rock solid even during 'prime time'... |
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said by nightshade74:I'm with msmisfit ... I've not had any issue with netflix. Outside Montgomery (Prattville) it's been rock solid even during 'prime time'... This problem I'm talking about happened from late 2013 to early 2014, when they switched to another provider because of said complaints. I can't remember the name, but they now use Hurricane Electric for their backhaul (confirmed via trace route). I myself actually experienced said problem and it went away after the backhaul switch in early 2014. |
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