[TriLUG] Switch from Spectrum Internet to AT&T Fiber

[Esther L via TriLUG]

One feature about the gift card from AT&T: To use it at a gas station, you
probably have to go inside the store, and not use pay-at-the-pump. There
will be some restrictions on where you can use that card - just be aware
you have to read the tiny tiny print.

Esther Lumsdon

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 12:22 PM Shannon Mecklenburg via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> I want advice about switching from Spectrum Internet to AT&T Fiber. AT&T
> brought fiber into all of the units in my apartment complex about 3 years
> ago. Before, the only option was Spectrum for Internet if you wanted high
> speed Internet as AT&T only was doing voice.
> I have had really stable service with Spectrum over the past 4 years with
> only a small handful of outages and most were only for a few minutes. So it
> makes me nervous about leaving something stable for something unknown, but
> since the fiber in the community is new and people have been using it for
> several years, I'm hoping all of the kinks are worked out. One negative is
> that AT&T placed the fiber jack behind my couch, and I would have to keep
> the couch away from the wall since fiber doesn't like to be bent like cat 5
> cable.  [.....]
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