joshj
join:2001-10-30
Antelope, CA
| There are two Surewests
There are two kinds of Surewest: Good Surewest and Old Surewest.
Good Surewest is the areas of Sacramento and Elk Grove that have this fiber system. Insanely fast Internet and pretty good cable TV also.
Old Surewest is the parts of Roseville, Citrus Heights, etc. that have had Surewest/Roseville Telephone as their phone company for decades. We don't get any of that stuff. What we get is overpriced telephone service and expensive DSL service. We'll never get any of the Good Surewest stuff because, after all, why would they? We're already a captive customer base for them. Not too much competition.
Now, I do have to give Old Surewest some credit for recently upgrading their DSL speeds from 1000/128 to 3000/768 for the same price. It finally makes their DSL service a "decent" value, but when they're charging $49.95 a month for DSL and neighboring SBC (which we can't get) is charging only $14.95, it's more than a little irritating.
Oh well... |
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xyrx
join:2001-08-07
Sacramento, CA
1 edit | The "Good" surewest you speak of is actually WinFirst, which SureWest bought out a few years back. The "Old" SureWest is probably the same SureWest just prior to the Winfirst buyout, which means no fiber, plain DSL and phone services, etc etc blah blah blah. |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20
| reply to joshj
A better way of looking at it is..
Roseville Telephone / WinFirst.
Surewest, a.k.a. Roseville Telco simply bought bankrupt WinFirst and took over the build.
But people, before you all get happy about the 20/20, one thing the paragraph above forgot the mention was, oh my, those damn CAPS! SOLID AND SET CAPS! Andy why caps? Because Fiber deployment compares with cable in the sense that it's share bandwidth. Granted, much faster.
I rbing this up as a good point because people bash cable tv on the fact that it's a shared environment.. also I have heard over and over the arguments about when Comcast and others speed up it means just getting to the caps faster... well? Here you go! |
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Rob916
@comcast.net
| reply to xyrx
Yes but the "good" Surewest has changed ALOT of things from what Winfirst did, they changed the infrastructure dramatically, the TV was originally over coax and not fiber but is now on fiber, they have changed hardware around and basically the whole network. I wish they still had the coverage map on the website, the coverage area is huge right now, even offering service in areas people don't know about. |
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