[nmpettus]

Originally Posted by gatorbill1

Not available north of 44? - I know it is not available near 466

We are north of 466 near Glenview and Savannah Center and have 940 mbps. Very reliable almost no outages includes equipment and install. We pay and have paid $65/mo for 6+ yrs.

[ronjon309]

It is available North of 44. We have it in village of Belle Aire. Their app will tell you if it is available in your area

[arbajeda]

Fiber has its own modem (called ONT) that changes fiber to copper. They usually adapt one of your home's telephone jacks for this purpose. It might be installed in your garage near your low-voltage box (where your irrigation controller is located), but I had them install mine inside the house near my router. I had some outages with Xfinity but none in a year with Quantum. You also might explore YouTube TV. Its channel lineup is almost identical to Xfinity but it has unlimited DVR and you can pause live TV.

[eeroger]

[QUOTE=gatorbill1;2344946]Not available north of 44? - I know it is not available near 466.

We have had quantum fiber for 6mos and our village entrance is on 466, so your statement is not correct. Not one outage since we started the service.

[gwenhwalker@yahoo.com]

In Saint James using for $50 month for life. No problems. Don't remember mbps but more than enough for my streaming

[HJBeck]

Take the deal, nothing prevents you from switching. My bet is they charge you more for the modem rental to recover their monthly cost. I would buy my own router (one that doesn’t slow the system down) and stream all the other services I need.

[Priebehouse]

Originally Posted by gatorbill1

Not available north of 44? - I know it is not available near 466

I got Quantum in the early spring and I live in Glenbrook, North of 466. As a snowbird, I got tired of the severe restrictions when I migrate to my Michigan home ("vacation mode") and the unreliability and billing nightmares of Xfinity when I come back. We stream TV's and a tablet (no gaming) and have the 500meg plan. With the exception of a faulty modem issue, I'm jumping up and down about the decision to switch. I consistently get download speeds of 540 - 560 megs and upload speeds of over 900 megs. $40/month is a lot better that the 200 meg plan I had from the other folks for over double the amount. Clear signal, no looping, no tiling. I highly recommend them. I wish I could get them up here!

[JRcorvette]

Originally Posted by gatorbill1

Not available north of 44? - I know it is not available near 466

It is available in Hillsboro Village and that is North of 44. Check your facts.

[BethBowen]

Originally Posted by maryhermann

Is anyone using Quantum Fiber internet? I received an offer in the mail that sounds almost too good to be true. 940 mbps for $35 a month for life, including equipment fees. If you are using it, is it reliable? Are there lots of outages? Overall it gets great reviews on CNET and Reddit and horrid reviews on Trustpilot and Yelp. Who am I to believe? I'd like to learn from a Villager first hand.

Have it. 30.00 a month when it was offered to me. Works fine.

[GATORBILL66]

I could not even find a phone number for them. If I can't talk to a live person, I don't deal with them!

[jrref]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

Why should I care about fiber? I have Xfinity COAX internet and get 1200 mbps. Is fiber really better than COAX?

Here are the facts:

1) Fiber gives you the same speed bi-directionally meaning if they say 1GBS then you get this speed both upload AND download. Cable only gives you the advertised speed on the download. Upload is generally about 30MBS, very slow.
2) With cable systems your internet is Shared meaning you and your neighbors Share the bandwidth on the same cable infrastructure which is why speeds will vary at peak times. With Fiber you have your own dedicated link and the speed never changes.
3) Because cable companies deliver TV content, they have to pay franchise fees to the content providers which always go up. This is why cable prices always increase because they have to pass these increases on to all of their customers. Even if you have a "deal" from cable, you can still get one of these increases. Some say "I'll renegotiate every year to get a deal" but unless you have an alarm set, the cable companies will automatically charge you full price at the end of the "deal" and by the time you realize it, you will have paid the increase.
4) Cable systems use old obsolete copper infrastructure thats vulnerable to lightning and can bring unwanted induced power surges into your home's electric system. Fiber is glass cable without any of these issues.
5) Because Fiber uses light on glass fibers it doesn't require power in most of it's distribution network like cable. In a severe storm if we get local power disruptions, Fiber will usually stay active where the local power disruptions will take out your cable.

Bottom line, if you can get Fiber internet service from any company here in the Villages, get it. Cable is old fashioned, more unreliable and is usually ripping you off.

[jrref]

Originally Posted by HJBeck

Take the deal, nothing prevents you from switching. My bet is they charge you more for the modem rental to recover their monthly cost. I would buy my own router (one that doesn’t slow the system down) and stream all the other services I need.

LOL, with fiber there is no modem like with cable. Quantum and all fiber internet companies provide you with the fiber termination device called an ONT (Optical Network Terminator) and router in a combined unit for FREE. You can install your own router and WiFi system after the fiber router or you can get their FREE mesh network pods and use them.

It's not like cable where you have a modem to pay for.

[jrref]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

I rent the modem/router from Xfinity because, if something goes wrong, I want to be able to blame them.

The optical network terminator and router device provided by Quantum is FREE and maintained by Quantum. If anything goes wrong, they fix it for FREE. All you need to do is plug in your Wifi device or use their FREE WiFi Mesh network pods which they setup for FREE and you are good to go. Fiber internet is the most flexible meaning if you want them to come set everything up for you for FREE without maintenance charges you can have that or if you want to set up your own system, you can do that as well. You can even turn off their router and use your own.

[biker1]

QuantumFiber’s mesh router is not free. It would be correct to state that it is available at “no additional cost” but you are paying for it. They changed their plans so what was a $15 per month mesh router lease option is now “included”. The price of their basic plan increased from $30 per month to $50 per month to essentially cover their mesh router, albeit they also raised the nominal bandwidth but that is of no value to me as I already have 10x more bandwidth than I need. I am under the $30 per month plan. For those who don’t want to roll their own, this is probably a good move by QuantumFiber but it does increase the cost for those of us who prefer to provide our own equipment. I’ll stay with the $30 plan as long as I can.

Originally Posted by jrref

The optical network terminator and router device provided by Quantum is FREE and maintained by Quantum. If anything goes wrong, they fix it for FREE. All you need to do is plug in your Wifi device or use their FREE WiFi Mesh network pods which they setup for FREE and you are good to go. Fiber internet is the most flexible meaning if you want them to come set everything up for you for FREE without maintenance charges you can have that or if you want to set up your own system, you can do that as well. You can even turn off their router and use your own.

[Boilerman]

Originally Posted by biker1

QuantumFiber’s mesh router is not free. It would be correct to state that it is available at “no additional cost” but you are paying for it. They changed their plans so what was a $15 per month mesh router lease option is now “included”. The price of their basic plan increased from $30 per month to $50 per month to essentially cover their mesh router, albeit they also raised the nominal bandwidth but that is of no value to me as I already have 10x more bandwidth than I need. I am under the $30 per month plan.

We’ve had Quantum for about 2 years. $30 a month total, price guaranteed for life for 200 MBPS. No outages so far. Modem and 4 pods included for free. That’s right, free.