OT: Damn you Allo Communications

[SeaOfRed75]

Damn you Allo. Damn you only for missing me by 3 blocks in your initial rollout of gigabit internet in Lincoln. 40th to 98th St. Holdredge down south to city limits. Damn you for making me pay Time Sucks the Devils Rectum Warner the same amount of money for a measly 15mbps a month that I could pay you for 100mbps.

p.s. Please come to my area next.

 

[anon_umk0ifu6vj6zi]

Damn you Allo. Damn you only for missing me by 3 blocks in your initial rollout of gigabit internet in Lincoln. 40th to 98th St. Holdredge down south to city limits. Damn you for making me pay Time Sucks the Devils Rectum Warner the same amount of money for a measly 15mbps a month that I could pay you for 100mbps.

p.s. Please come to my area next.

Feel your pain. Not available in the Knolls or Ridge either. Plain stupidity

 

[BigRedPimp]

I get your frustration, but could you imagine the outcry if their first installs are in the Knolls, Ridge, etc parts of Lincoln. Hitting the University and other parts first.

Do others think this will really negatively impact TSTDRW's business? I'm hopeful!

 

[MotoHusker]

I got mine ordered for work and will be installed sometime in June or July.. bye bye TWC
Up next will be my home .. both are in the block to get done this year..

 

[BigRedPimp]

I got mine ordered for work and will be installed sometime in June or July.. bye bye TWC
Up next will be my home .. both are in the block to get done this year..

What was the pricing like?

 

[MotoHusker]

for work , changing phone,internet & TV will save me about $150 a month and increase Internet speed from 2m /.5m to 50m/50m
Here is the pricing for home http://allocommunications.com/get-allo/?id=16054
Still don't understand why business have to pay more than residential.

 

[NikkiSixx_rivals269993]

Busines plans usually come with SLA's and guarantees of uptime and resources right away if you are down. With home service, if it is down, good luck getting anyone out to look at it within 24 hours.

I am curious why some people feel they need a gigabit internet connection at home. Even 100Mbps is overkill.

I've recently been 'upgraded' in service and in price without my consent (Thanks Cox Internet) and the difference between 50Mbps and the prior 25Mbps is hardly noticeable.

Thinking of stepping down a tier to 15Mbps.

 

[MotoHusker]

yes forgot about the faster service.. 24 hour window for TWC to get to me in the past at work.
Long time when you can't do your job because the internet is down.

I am going from a 2Mbs to a 50Mbs for less money.. I think the same way as you , a 100Mbs is over kill I think.
Going to depend on a lot of other things then your connection speed to utilize that much bandwidth.
But if pricing is comparable or cheaper why not

 

[SeaOfRed75]

If people start streaming 4k on multiple devices, 100mbps is not overkill. For most people yes it is overkill. Gigabit is definitely overkill. But its like 500hp under your hood. Damn cool.

I mostly want Allo as TW sucks the devils scrotum GROSSLY over charges due to no competition. As the HORRIBLE dsl windsuck provides is capped at 6mbps in my area.

Im also hoping Microsoft rolls out something similar to Playstation Vue for TV so I can dumb even Dish and stream EVERYTHING.

 

[suhnami_rivals]

Busines plans usually come with SLA's and guarantees of uptime and resources right away if you are down. With home service, if it is down, good luck getting anyone out to look at it within 24 hours.

I am curious why some people feel they need a gigabit internet connection at home. Even 100Mbps is overkill.

I've recently been 'upgraded' in service and in price without my consent (Thanks Cox Internet) and the difference between 50Mbps and the prior 25Mbps is hardly noticeable.

Thinking of stepping down a tier to 15Mbps.

Is the grocery store overkill? What is that place doing with all that food that never runs out? Do they really need all those kinds of fruits?

 

[bigboxes]

TWC is not capped. I'm all for competition though. DSL sucks. I wish Google Fiber came to my town. I've got 8+ devices that access my network. I can get 300Mbps, but I'm not paying for that. I believe I'm paying for 50/5 and getting 56/6 in speed tests. Had to buy my own modem to get that as the supplied one was only giving me 50/2.

 

[jflores]

Busines plans usually come with SLA's and guarantees of uptime and resources right away if you are down. With home service, if it is down, good luck getting anyone out to look at it within 24 hours.

I am curious why some people feel they need a gigabit internet connection at home. Even 100Mbps is overkill.

I've recently been 'upgraded' in service and in price without my consent (Thanks Cox Internet) and the difference between 50Mbps and the prior 25Mbps is hardly noticeable.

Thinking of stepping down a tier to 15Mbps.

I've had gigabit for the last two years. To sit around and stream Netflix, its overkill, sure. In 5 years when I'm streaming to who knows how many devices at 4k when my kids are a little bigger? Not as much overkill.

Especially considering the primacy of online backups and "work from anywhere" type of remote desktop systems and home media servers. If you want to dump a couple TB of family data onto Amazon Glacier, having 1Gbps is nice. A whole bunch nicer than 100Mbps.

I've got a server that sits in my basement in West Omaha, and I can be at my folks house or my inlaws house and its just like being at home on a LAN connection basically, because we all ride on Centurylink's fiber network with substantial speeds.

Edit: And for many years I was paying $65 for cables 15 or 25mb or 50mb plan. At $75, my gigabit plan isn't exactly killing the wallet and I have zero caps and a whole ton more bandwidth.

 

[SeaOfRed75]

TWC is not capped. I'm all for competition though. DSL sucks. I wish Google Fiber came to my town. I've got 8+ devices that access my network. I can get 300Mbps, but I'm not paying for that. I believe I'm paying for 50/5 and getting 56/6 in speed tests. Had to buy my own modem to get that as the supplied one was only giving me 50/2.

Not to mention you pay for that modem in a year or so for what you pay to "rent" it from Time Devil. And Arris surfboards come with 2 year warranties. Why not buy? And rent whatever terrible wireless router they would have? No way.

Im guessing Time Devil "magically" lowers prices as Allo slowly expands coverage in Lincoln.

 

[NikkiSixx_rivals269993]

If people start streaming 4k on multiple devices, 100mbps is not overkill. For most people yes it is overkill. Gigabit is definitely overkill. But its like 500hp under your hood. Damn cool.

In time, it will make sense for 4K, but I'm thinking the coolest has to be the guy with gigabit service and has it hooked up to his 802.lln wireless router that gets about 48Mbps max throughput with 1 client IF he's lucky. I hear that guy also has a grocery store in his house! RollingLaugh

 

[Hard4Corn]

I live in the map area that will be under construction first (SE Lincoln). I called and they said they should have construction done and be ready this fall. I can't wait as I dumped TWC a couple of years ago and went with Directv but had to get Windstream for internet. Directv is okay until it rains and I'm not a huge fan of windstream plus I'm paying a combined price that is much higher than Allo is listing.