i have at&t, but because of where the box is, internet speeds are ridiculously slow. verizon isn't available. why is west sac such an internet desert, and is there talk of this changing? we're going to buy a house here but i'm really irritated at the internet options. i'm annoyed that in 2019 internet options are so limited here.
Posted Mar 19, 2019, 10:18 PM UTC
Wave man
Pfft I had Wave for a long time and they sucked ass, they were even worse than AT&T.
ughhh really? in west sac? they certainly offer more speed options. at&t has the one, and it always pisses me off.
Yeah they were terrible. Internet was constantly cutting out on me. They were never able to fix it. AT&T certainly hasn't been perfect, but it's a marked improvement over what I had with Wave.
When I lived there I had Wave. Never any problems with it.
The internet doesn't cut out magically the techs at there end pull the plug on you cause you have used to much internet once you reach the cap they cut you off and then piss on your foot and tell you it is raining saying shit like I am sorry but it seems to me that your router is faulty bullshit I am logged on to my router and my router troubleshooting page and it says that the ISP signal is not existent so then I tell them hey I have another router and they put the mac of the router and claim that it doesn't work and then I tell them bull shit I got this from my friend that lives 2 houses down and had internet until I disconnected him and brought his router over and now you're telling me that I don't have internet magically my netgear c6900 starts working after the raptors beat the warriors I was trying to stream it on my hd tv yeah this is there business practices that they do xfinity charges you for going over unless you get the unlimited plan which is in the neighborhood of $200 wave offers you unlimited but really it isn't it limited
I’m in West Sac. Had Wave. Hated it. Got AT&T. Hated that too. Got a Nitehawk router from Costco. Zero issues with the AT&T internet now. Zero. The AT&T router is what I think really sucks. We are on the highest data rate available for our neighborhood. We stream all of our TV with no lag. My two teenage daughters suck enormous amounts of data as well. Zero issues. The Nighthawk is also a flame thrower for signal. I can get my own WiFi signal from three houses away. Again, with zero issues.
Nitehawk router
I see several versions on Amazon, which one is yours? https://www.amazon.com/R7000-100PAS-Nighthawk-Parental-Controls-Compatible/dp/B00F0DD0I6
Thank you, I'll try it.
This is the one we got. https://www.costco.com/NETGEAR-Nighthawk-X6S-AC3000-MU-MIMO-Smart-Wi-Fi-Router.product.100369549.html
Costco and Amazon get proprietary models, so they don’t cross exactly between the two retailers.
Does consolidated communications service your area? I pay pretty cheap for decent service and never had it go out.
Do you have access to cable? Iirc Wave is out there and does offer service as the cable Co.
Last check the regular cable offerings suck with the data cap but their gigabit offering using Docsis 3.1 is uncapped.
do you mean cable tv? we don't have cable, just internet.
i have no idea what anything in your second line means. how does one uncap their internet?
Does wave offer internet service to your address?
https://residential.wavebroadband.com/resources/cities/west-sacramento-internet-cable-phone.php
Cable companies like wave have two different technologies to provide internet. Docsis 3.0 and the newest Docsis 3.1.
Their cheaper and slower Docsis 3.0 based internet plans have data caps so they charge you extra money if your usage exceeds 400/500 gb.
Their fastest speed (gigabit) goes over the newest standard which is Docsis 3.1. On that service they do not have data usage caps.
yes, wave offers service to my address, but i've never heard of wave before and i hear such mixed things (as below), so idk.
They are definitely mixed feels especially about their older D3.0 tiers but their D3.1 gigabit network is relatively new that uses newer generation equipment. If anything it should be more reliable than the decades old twisted pair wiring used by ATT DSL.
Wave is one of the smaller residential broadband providers who has the cable monopoly for west sac whereas Comcast is predominant in the rest of the region.
Wouldn't hurt to try at all IMO.