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Fidium fiber has recently become available at my address. They claim GB service, anyone have experience? Several neighbors were reporting reliability issues when first offered but I have heard nothing recently. I am long term WFH, Comcast was historically not an issue but I have been losing calls of late in the afternoon when the kids are home from school. A speed test shows 80 down, 11 Up with Comcast.
Bumping to find out if anyone is using Fidium and if so, how it's going? I've been seeing lots of TV ads here in Cheshire County. Right now I have Spectrum for Internet ONLY and it's now $85/month. I keep it because it's unlimited, but it seems high to me (maybe it's actually NOT!).
Bumping to find out if anyone is using Fidium and if so, how it's going? I've been seeing lots of TV ads here in Cheshire County. Right now I have Spectrum for Internet ONLY and it's now $85/month. I keep it because it's unlimited, but it seems high to me (maybe it's actually NOT!).
Anyone?
OK, that's weird.
I have Spectrum unlimited internet up to 300Mbps only and it is 79.99, up from 74.99 in November. Not on any introductory period or anything either.
I'll be on Starlink once I move though as their is no broadband or strong enough cell signal where I am building.
Fidium has some weird issues. Last night it started with descriptive audio for "visually impaired" and didn't return to normal for several hours. Might be related to a vehicle accident nearby which snapped a telephone pole. Sometimes the video blinks and replays the last 10 seconds. Otherwise, its pretty good.
We’ve had Fidium since February. I can’t directly compare it to Comcast since we have not had Comcast in quite a long time - never at this address. We were switching from Consolidated DSL, the only service available in our part of town, in the Monadnock Region. (Fidium is the branding for Consolidated’s new fiber service, in case someone doesn’t know.)
DSL had gotten more and more unreliable, not just slow but out of service frequently. We’ve had zero problems with Fidium and were so relieved when they became available! I can’t speak to the technical aspects… speed and all that… that is the domain of my spouse. I will say we have no problem with two people working online and streaming services running to more than one TV, at the same time.
People in my town, even those who did have Comcast available and switched, have been very happy with Fidium.
Got Consolidated 1G FTTH when it first became available in my town (1 year ago? 2? don't remember). Rock solid. Switched to Fidium last Thursday, 1 day before my power went out (just came back on this AM). No problems then or now, post power. Switchover took a truck roll and about 2 hours, mostly waiting for updates and electronic handshakes.
Consolidated has done a terrible job explaining why they're pushing Fidium so hard, especially for us current FTTH customers. Turns out the reason is two fold: First, rebranding to get away from the Consolidated name and bad associations to its DSL products, second, it uses an updated technology that makes better use of its fiber infrastructure, allowing greater capacity on each fiber, hence the need to swap out ONT (the fiber equivalent of a modem...) at both the home and CO.
Some folks online don't like the fact that the router they give you is locked down with some configuration by the user being done by an app. I find it tolerable since I've never gone into the finer settings like QOS, and where I live, I don't need to set channels.
Just signed up for the new Fidium Commercial (business) service, will report back in a week or two on how it's working out.
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