demonspork
demonspork t1_irbjz5s wrote
Reply to comment by feralfantastic in Brightspeed — ominous signs by feralfantastic
There are more layers than that. CU/Springnet actually built out the fiber and is leasing frequency ranges to Quantum/CenturyLink/Lumen because Springnet doesn't want to handle the consumer things like customer service and deploying home routers. Now Lumen is offloading many of their last mile Internet service markets to Brightspeed.
Down the road this same fiber should support multiple ISPs just using different bands on the existing fiber, but word on the block is that the initial quantum contract was exclusive for a time, not sure how long.
demonspork t1_isadvtx wrote
Reply to comment by houseofwarwick in yet another ISP post. sorry. Q. I finally have quantum available in my neighborhood, and I want to ditch this DSL for the fiber at about the same price. Anybody know the best way to sign up? there seems to be multiple websites and phone numbers. they all seem to offer the same deal. tia by KTfl1
I hope that brightspeed fixes quantum's shortfalls in the IPv6 space. Lumen built out the new quantum fiber infrastructure using a transitional technology called 6RD instead of native IPv6 implementation. it performs poorly and is disabled by default, likely because of this poor performance. I switched from Mediacom which has full native IPv6 capabilities that's just as fast or faster than IPv4 on their network.