Submitted by one800higgins t3_11jecfq in lakewood
Does anyone here have any insight into AT&T Fiber’s expansion plans here in Lakewood?
We moved here a year ago and miss having fiber so much. I keep checking neighboring streets for signs of expansion and all I’ve seen is AT&T starting to offer 2GB & 5GB services here in Lakewood. I’m literally one street away from Fiber offerings and would love to see them expand.
Maybe some local technicians are on Reddit and can share some anonymous insight?
I’m paying $160/m for halfway decent internet from Cox and it still pales in comparison to what I used to get for $70/m from AT&T. I hate cable internet. It drops too often, has too much packet loss, costs too much, and the upload speeds are god awful.
I don't have specifics to the expansion, other than I've recently seen a couple "Coming soon!" yard signs.
I can say that I recently switched to it from Cox, and that the service has been spectacular.
Any specific streets you’ve seen the signs?
I had it for years when I lived in NC and going back to cable internet has been such a bummer. And 2.5x the cost 🙄 So ready to ditch Cox.
I think there's one in the area of Franklin & Winchester. But yeah, much better speeds at a much better price. Good luck!
It used to be the case (and I thought it was still the case) that any cable wired connection to the internet was far better than anything through a phone line because it is much more consistent service. As far as I'm aware AT&T has always been utter dogshit service at least in Cleveland.
Have things changed somehow in the past 5 years?
Fiber isn’t phone line. It’s fiber optic cable. It’s so far above the capabilities of cable internet.
Also, it’s not new. FiOS directly to consumers (and not just businesses) has been around for like 15 years now. Tons of providers use it. It is the backbone of every major internet provider. The faster cable speeds are often due to fiber to the node setups bringing the bottlenecks of cable internet closer to the houses. AT&T, Google, Verizon, and many others have been doing direct Fiber internet to homes for waaaaay more than 5 years, offering 1-5Gbps speeds for half the cost of cable internet.
What street? I just talked to the crew that was splicing the line in the backyards between Marlowe and Lincoln. They told me they just started the work which will take about 4 weeks. After that it will take about a week to test the signals. So about mid April the sales staff will start coming door to door.
I’m on Lakeland Ave. Summit Ave, the next street over, has had fiber since we bought this house in Nov ‘21, but we don’t.
Here’s hoping that Lakeland to Marlowe is a single node. Seems small enough to be.
They said the node for Marlowe and Lincoln is on belle and Franklin. Seems like a big push is happening. If you’re really curious, you should be able to find a crew that are working on the lines. Their trucks are not labeled, so I imagine they are a third-party that are running the fiber optics. You could probably just ask them if they’re running AT&T fiber, and what’s the outlook for your street.
I really appreciate the insight. Glad to hear they are actively working on things a few streets over. Will keep my fingers crossed for fiber before the end of this year.
My parents moved into the house next door from their previous house. They had AT&T but the house next door was outside the service area. It’s totally hit or miss.
At someone else commented it's expanding. There are signs up by Lincoln, Marlo, st. Charles
Lincoln and what cross street? Hoping closer to the lake.
Franklin/Madison
Appreciate it.
I’ve had AT&T fiber since I’ve moved here in April 2021. I think it honestly depends on the street.
It does but it is applied in blocks. Unfortunately I have it 1 block in 1 direction and 6 blocks in the other. So basically my node is one of the only ones right in the heart of Lakewood that doesn’t have it.
My experience has been to stick with Cox, which has proved to be more reliable than AT&T. I live on Warren and have fiber through Cox, installed a couple of years ago, and get gigabit speed for 69.99/mo (no cable or other service).
Cox is installing more fiber optic cable today along Madison Ave. between Warren and Lincoln, which caused a small, temporary drop in service around 10am this morning. But it's all fine now.
We also have 5G access through the Verizon network put in two years ago--which we don't use, since we have T-Mobile. Still, internet access is not a problem in this part of Lakewood.
Cox doesn’t offer fiber to the home. They offer a fiber to the node service, with cable service to the home. This is not equivalent, as it maxes at 1Gb down and has severely capped upload speeds (IIRC it’s a sad 35Mb), versus FiOS which is 1:1 speeds. Cox also has data caps. It’s also mad expensive… I’m paying $160/m for 300/30 speeds and an unlimited plan, versus $80/m for 1000/1000 and unlimited on Fiber.
I was on AT&T Fiber for years before buying a new home and being stuck with Cox. It just takes me back to my years in NC on TWC. I have experienced so many issues since moving to this home a year ago. You will never convince me that any cable plan is better than FiOS.
Yes, any info would be appreciated! Our discount with Cox is running out at the end of the month, but AT&T still says it's limited to 50Mbps downstream at our house on Wyandotte, and we can't get by on that when we're working from home. (Aside from the fact that AT&T wants $55 for that service.)
The FCC broadband map says we also get Spectrum, but Spectrum's website just tells me to call when I put in my address, and I suspect they'll just transfer me to Cox.
Are Spectrum and Cox merging now? I know Spectrum and TWC did.
No, I think they have a cross-sales agreement of some kind, though. When I first moved to Lakewood from Cleveland and had Spectrum, when I called Spectrum to cancel, they offered to transfer me to Cox.
Ahhhh love me some monopolistic behavior in plain sight.
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negative33andathird t1_jb314n6 wrote
I've been trying to get answers since before the pandemic. AT&T won't comment. City officials don't seem too concerned. I'm tired of Cox and their monopoly on broadband in my neighborhood. Yes, AT&T does offer DSL as an alternative, but it's capped at 25Mbps. That's not going to cut it when we've got a full-time WFH person in the house and two online students. Cox is the only choice right now for me.