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I used to have Frontier for my Internet. The speeds were acceptable for my day to day until the local schools got out for summer. Then the network was saturated
by mfer 5y ago
I used to have Frontier for my Internet. The speeds were acceptable for my day to day until the local schools got out for summer. Then the network was saturated and I couldn't get fast enough speeds to do my job.
I tried to trace where the issue was. My best guess was the issue had to do with their uplink to the rest of the Internet. At times in the day it would get saturated because they didn't provide enough bandwidth at that point. There was a bottleneck.
- phamilton 5y agoI have Frontier gigabit fiber and I have zero complaints. At the peak of Zoom school, I had 3 kids on zoom calls, my wife and I both on zoom calls, and the 2 year old watching Netflix all at the same time without even a blip. I'm 90% certain the gigabit download isn't that important, but synchronous upload and download speeds that make all the difference.
- mfer 5y agoIt may depend on where you are. gigabit speeds and fiber aren't available in my region. The places that have it are not routed to the upstream providers the same way my region is. ISPs that have many locations around the US are routed differently to the broader Internet and can have different footprints in different locations.
- jabroni_salad 5y agoBefore you credit frontier with that, most of Frontier's fiber was acquired from Verizon and represents a minority in their customer base.