Anyone with experience with WOW fiber optic cable

[Ralph]

Our neighborhood has had WOW fiber cable installed, and I've scheduled an installation date. Currently stream 3 ROKU TV's, couple laptops, 2 Kindles, 3 I phones, etc. One extender in far bedroom. Obviously not all at same time.

Our current provider is Spectrum. With them I'm getting 340-350 MB fairly consistently thru wired connection. Get some buffering and dropped signal.

Going to try the WOW 500 MB plan to see if that is enough. Our bill will drop a little with 500 MB plan, stay about the same with a 1 gig plan. If 500 not enough, will step up to the 1 gig plan. Upload and download speed not very important to us, just TV reception mostly. I know we're not early to fiber optic service, and some of you use it now.

[gravelreformist]

You might as well change if you can save money and get away from Spectrum. That said, 350Mb is more than enough for everything you are doing. Even a 4k video stream tops out at about 25Mbps - so you have enough now for 14 concurrent 4k streams. And 1080p only uses 3-5Mb per stream.

If you are having buffering and weak signal issues, that's more than likely due to your equipment which won't improve unless the new ISP replaces the device generating your wifi signal as well (with one that is meaningfully better - which is doubtful).

[Ralph]

Originally Posted by gravelreformist

You might as well change if you can save money and get away from Spectrum. That said, 350Mb is more than enough for everything you are doing. Even a 4k video stream tops out at about 25Mbps - so you have enough now for 14 concurrent 4k streams. And 1080p only uses 3-5Mb per stream.

If you are having buffering and weak signal issues, that's more than likely due to your equipment which won't improve unless the new ISP replaces the device generating your wifi signal as well (with one that is meaningfully better - which is doubtful).

Currently using Spectrum equipment. They have changed it out seveal times. No help.

[Ralph]

Originally Posted by Ralph

Currently using Spectrum equipment. They have changed it out seveal times. No help.

WOW will install Eero router. Don’t know which one.

[dgauthier]

Originally Posted by gravelreformist

You might as well change if you can save money and get away from Spectrum. That said, 350Mb is more than enough for everything you are doing. Even a 4k video stream tops out at about 25Mbps - so you have enough now for 14 concurrent 4k streams. And 1080p only uses 3-5Mb per stream.

If you are having buffering and weak signal issues, that's more than likely due to your equipment which won't improve unless the new ISP replaces the device generating your wifi signal as well (with one that is meaningfully better - which is doubtful).

This^^^^

I have a wifi 5 Eero Pro mesh and like it a lot. If WOW gives you an Eero mesh it will be better than the typical ISP crap.

Be aware, though, some of the older wifi 5 "cupcake" style Eero devices are still not that great. All the newer wifi 6 stuff is quite good, so if they give you that you should be golden.