My little brother lives in the area they took over from Verizon. Before he was on bloody *Dial Up* for the price I pay my ISP for 3Mbps Cable. His service was up & down faster than a Duncan at a Speed YoYoing contest. After FC took over, he's now got access to their fibre loop, pays less than I do, & mocks me as being a "Turtle in my internet fast lane!" While I'm happy for him, dial up truly sucks in this day & age, and I have to give FC kudos for improving the service to the point where he's on fibre, but it all just makes me wish Verizon would die in a fire *that much more*.
So, to the poster whom compaired it to being given "mere bread & water", consider this: Before they were lucky to get spoiled bread & tainted water. Now it's a loaf of fresh sourdough & a bottle of Evian, with options for Filet Mignon & a bottle of chilled Dom Perignon. Going from 56Kbps dial up (on a good day if he was lucky) to Gigabit Fibre 24/7 is like going from being shackled to a boat anchor that weighs more than you do & unable to lift your head to see where you're crawling, to being unchained, given wings, & having the rocket booster shoved up your butt. Happy flying, RocketBoy, and try not to laugh too hard when you break FTL. =-)
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I have to give Frontier some kudos.
My little brother lives in the area they took over from Verizon.
Before he was on bloody *Dial Up* for the price I pay my ISP for 3Mbps Cable.
His service was up & down faster than a Duncan at a Speed YoYoing contest.
After FC took over, he's now got access to their fibre loop, pays less than I do, & mocks me as being a "Turtle in my internet fast lane!"
While I'm happy for him, dial up truly sucks in this day & age, and I have to give FC kudos for improving the service to the point where he's on fibre, but it all just makes me wish Verizon would die in a fire *that much more*.
So, to the poster whom compaired it to being given "mere bread & water", consider this:
Before they were lucky to get spoiled bread & tainted water.
Now it's a loaf of fresh sourdough & a bottle of Evian, with options for Filet Mignon & a bottle of chilled Dom Perignon.
Going from 56Kbps dial up (on a good day if he was lucky) to Gigabit Fibre 24/7 is like going from being shackled to a boat anchor that weighs more than you do & unable to lift your head to see where you're crawling, to being unchained, given wings, & having the rocket booster shoved up your butt.
Happy flying, RocketBoy, and try not to laugh too hard when you break FTL.
=-)