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Old 01-20-2018, 08:12 PM
 
Location: SoCal
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can someone tell me how the Internet service in Roseburg is? I read that there are many service providers. Has anybody got any experience with any of them? How reliable, how fast, how expensive... Thanks.
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Old 01-21-2018, 06:18 PM
 
Location: Oregon Coast
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can someone tell me how the Internet service in Roseburg is? I read that there are many service providers. Has anybody got any experience with any of them? How reliable, how fast, how expensive... Thanks.
Charter Spectrum. It's a monopoly, better than most, but not great. The other options are a complete joke.
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Old 01-21-2018, 08:19 PM
 
Location: SoCal
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Charter Spectrum. It's a monopoly, better than most, but not great. The other options are a complete joke.
I just looked up Charter's Internet plans for Roseburg. It's not cheap, more than in California. Is the service reliable?
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Old 01-22-2018, 01:11 AM
 
Location: Oregon Coast
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I just looked up Charter's Internet plans for Roseburg. It's not cheap, more than in California. Is the service reliable?
As I said it's better than most. I don't have any issues with it. But I'm about a hundred miles away from Roseburg. I don't know how the service is there.
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Old 01-22-2018, 03:11 AM
 
Location: Myrtle Creek, Oregon
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I think another option is Douglas Fast Net.

https://dfn.net/
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Old 01-22-2018, 11:49 AM
 
Location: Oregon Coast
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I think another option is Douglas Fast Net.

https://dfn.net/
Do you use that? It looks like it's a reseller of DSL service to me. Plus their website is dumb. 250 Mbps "Fastest internet in Douglas County". Then it goes on to advertise 1 Gbps service. Does that mean that the 1Gbps service they advertise isn't really available in Douglas County? Or does it mean that they are too dumb to know that 1 Gbps is faster the 250 Mbps? I don't know about you, but I don't trust companies that can't get facts like that correct.

To the best of my knowledge Charter is the fastest residential internet service in Western Oregon. There is some fiber internet, but that is mostly limited to businesses. If somebody knows of a faster service, that is not vaporware, I'd love to hear about it.
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Old 01-22-2018, 10:08 PM
 
Location: Myrtle Creek, Oregon
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All I know is that most people seem to prefer DFN over Charter. I think Charter is mostly a cable company, while DFN uses more modern technology. Neither one serves my area, so I don't really care.
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Old 01-23-2018, 10:18 AM
 
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All I know is that most people seem to prefer DFN over Charter. I think Charter is mostly a cable company, while DFN uses more modern technology. Neither one serves my area, so I don't really care.
From their website, they are not a technology company. They are just a reseller of fiber, wireless and DSL internet services. The fiber would be great, very fast, but as I said that is extremely limited in this part of Oregon. I believe it's only available in business districts. The wireless and DSL is not as fast as Charter. The options they give are:

Fiber up 1 Gbps (great if you can actually get it)
Wireless up to 15 Mbps (very slow)
DSL 40 Mpbs (slow)

Douglas Fast Net (DFN)

Charter is 60 Mbps (supposedly upgrading soon to 100 Mbps)

So if you can get fiber, you should get that. Otherwise Charter is the fastest.
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Old 01-23-2018, 02:23 PM
 
Location: SoCal
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Thanks for input. What about wireless?
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Old 01-23-2018, 07:06 PM
 
Location: Myrtle Creek, Oregon
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DFN serves the north county rural areas with wireless, but the topography is pretty rugged. It take line of sight to install wireless. I'm hoping they someday put an antenna on top of Dodson Butte. They could pick up thousands of subscribers that way. Right now the only thing up there is a NOAA broadcast station. I think DFN is the only option for wireless, and it's site specific.
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