My Spectrum Fiber Thread

edin · 2025-01-23T03:18:58+00:00

Thought I'd make a thread like I did for my "My Cable Problems" But hopefully this will be an all good thread. Not using the provided router, its speed and range is pretty good, but features even basic settings it does not have. Did have it installed at my parents house in my old spare room since it was easier and 600ft less of digging. And still utilizing the fiber I have our houses connected together with at 10gig. Using a UDM Pro for the Router which is at my house along with a U7 Pro (love/hate) At my parents house on a VLAN for there network using a NanoHD and U6 LR AP's over there. Still trying to decide if I want to enable IPv6 or not. Just a bit freaked out that EACH device gets there own public IPv6, but I guess security wise its still safe and firewalled.

Motorola870

noticed that Vyve has launched 2Gbps in the Forest City HFC areas. I am guessing they are trying to compete with Spectrum and At&t. I am wondering if they finally got the system up to 860MHz to do a full 192MHz wide OFDM block.

edin

Motorola870 They’ve had it for over a year now. Maybe 2 years now. They had 2Gbps before Spectrum did. When they first launched it it was 100mbps up, but shortly after a few months they only offered it with 50mbps lol. So no competition there.

Not sure when spectrum is gonna release 7Gig here though, I still have it and its been wonderful.

Jaybonaut

edin Heard 2 gig, 5 gig, and 10, with them mentioning 25 in the future for fiber customers - never heard them say anything about 7

edin

Jaybonaut Where did you hear that? I’ve heard little about a possible 5G but its not for fiber markets. But Zero on 10G. But have heard 50G from Fiber markets. I’ve had 7 gig for months now. Still not available to the public in my market though. But in some markets in KY and maybe a few other states its been live for a few months now.

I have direct contact with a higher up in corp, and as of a few months ago there was no mention of 5G at least for the fiber markets. Only 2G and 7G for now and the potential of 50G in the future.

The plans for well above 10G wont be for another couple of years though.

My market still is not even ready for 7Gig. In my area max I can with two 7G services is right around 8Gig of total throughput so the backhaul is not there yet.

jarablue

yet I am sitting here in worcester ma and we won’t get 2gig on the download until 2027. this shit is taking way to long for such a tiny upgrade in speed. 5gig? that won’t hit this area until the next decade at the speed they are rolling it out here.

edin

jarablue Have some hope. I mean I spent the past 18 years with an awful cable co which I NEVER thought we would ever get fiber here. The cable co never got anything faster than 100/20 until around 2019 or 2020

But now that crappy cable co now offers 2000/50 lol

penberth

jarablue I am pretty much in the same boat as you in Buffalo, NY. Waiting until the end of 2027 for a small upgrade in speed.

Spectrum made their “Network Evolution” in December 2022. And it won’t be complete until December 2027 (That is if it doesn’t slip again.)

During their initial presentation, they said that there would be three “waves.”

Wave 1:
15% are getting 2/1 high split upgrades. (Now-2023)
High-split 1.2Ghz/204Mhz digital return D3.1 on legacy downstream, digital upstream.
This will be the DOCSIS3.1 and will be the 4 mid-sized markets this year.

Wave 2:
50% of the footprint are getting 5/1 rPHY 1.2ghz D4.0 (Early 2024)
High-split 1.2Ghz/204Mhz digital return D3.1 on DAA rPHY. D4.0

Wave 3:
The remaining 35% are getting 10/1 rPHY 1.8ghz D4.0 (Late 2024)
Ultra high-split 1.8Ghz/204Mhz digital return D4.0 on DAA rPHY.

Looks like those dates slipped, a lot. It seems like waves 2 and 3 are getting lumped together into late 2027.

Jaybonaut

edin Pages 28-30:

https://ir.charter.com/static-files/3943ccd3-dd07-4dfa-9946-a9afd1bef557

edin

Jaybonaut Thats from 2022. And 5 and 10G is for coax. 25G+ for FIber. Just a few months ago there was nothing about 25G for fiber. But there was plans for 50Gig for Fiber, there was no info about 25Gig for Fiber. The person I have direct contact with is VP of Engineering and operations with Spectrum, so if there was gonna be 25G for fiber he would’ve known. But the 50Gig is still a few years away at this point.

Also not sure how much I’d rely on that data, Since 7Gig is not listed there which is something they have been rolling out and I personally have it.

Off topic, but these high ups flew people out from Colorado to my house to troubleshoot a network wide IPv6 issue, which after the visit they got it fixed in a couple of weeks

Jaybonaut

edin I wrote: “Heard 2 gig, 5 gig, and 10, with them mentioning 25 in the future for fiber customers - never heard them say anything about 7”

You asked where I heard that. You can see it directly from their own announcement in the link I provided. Page 30 talks about 25 gig fiber.

Hopefully the VP of Engineering and operations will have a conversation with marketing soon.

MacLeech

edin The person I have direct contact with is VP of Engineering and operations with Spectrum

There are TONS of VPs in Spectrum, most are regional or below. You have to add another letter to actually be important. GVP, SVP, EVP, etc.
https://corporate.charter.com/leadership

edin

MacLeech He’s in Colorado so not directly near my market

cypherstream

edin maybe Chris Winfrey was like Oprah Winfrey “you get 7gb, you get 7gb, you get 7gb, you all get 7gb!”

CBusdude

Looks like the 7 Gig fiber plan is official https://www.spectrum.com/internet/fiber-internet

jhawl3

https://www.spectrum.com/internet/plans/internet-gig/7-gig

edin

Its been listed on their site for awhile in the fine print. Still not live in my market though offically anyway

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