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

[Hrivnak, Michael via TriLUG]

I have AT&T fiber in Raleigh. It started as 300/300, but they upgraded it
at some point to 500/500 with no price increase. My bill says it's the
"Internet 500 (Fiber 500)" plan.

Here's what I pay monthly:
- $45 for service ($20 off for 12 months (Expires Jan 21, 2023))
- $10 for equipment
- $0.73 in taxes

Total: $55.73

Once a year I have to call to keep the promotional rate. I remind them that
if I'm going to pay >$70/month, I'll just switch to Google Fiber, which has
twice the speed of my current service and is a few bucks cheaper than
AT&T's full price.

I've had service for a few years, and I don't think we've had an outage.

For a transition, I'd call Spectrum and confirm that you can cancel at any
time. Then get the AT&T service ordered, installed and working before
calling back to cancel with Spectrum. In case there are any surprises
installing the new service, you don't want to be stuck without any service!

As Wes mentioned, the fiber wall connector they installed in my house has
the fiber line coming out of the bottom, so there would be no issue with
furniture in front of it.

Michael

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 1:12 PM Esther L via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> 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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