Ask The Pack: ISP in Starkville

[DawgsOnTheWing]

Got to get Internet service set up for a daughter in grad school this fall. What say The Pack about the best ISP option in Starkville?

 

[aTotal360]

no good options. but metrocast is your best option. All 4 places that I lived in that had ATT, every time it rained it would flash in and out. Metrocast was much more stable, but not as snappy.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

Got to get Internet service set up for a daughter in grad school this fall. What say The Pack about the best ISP option in Starkville?

that new Cspire fiber will be online late this year will it not? If it is, that's your provider

 

[dickiedawg]

Not sure when Cspire is going live but it's got to be the way to go. Metrocast is awful but it's the best we've got at current.

 

[ababyatemydingo]

Not sure when Cspire is going live but it's got to be the way to go. Metrocast is awful but it's the best we've got at current.

I was on the team that brought C Spire fiber to the home to Quitman. We are very proud of that accomplishment, and worked very hard since last September to make it happen. We got our entire city qualified for it, and they are currently boring fiber all over our city. It's going into every single neighborhood in the city limits, and a few outside the city limits. First house will be turned on in August. Everyone hooked up by November. Every house will have access, if they can afford it. Yes, if you have 1 Gbps (up and down) fiber to the home access in your neighborhood, you'd be a fool not to take advantage of it. It's amazing to see. When we went to Ridgeland for the demo they did for us, they had 37 netflix videos all playing in HD on one 1 Gbps fiber connection, and it never buffered. At the same time, they had a skype conversation going, and downloaded a TV series from iTunes. again. never blinked. We didn't even touch the available bandwidth. It's pretty transformational. They have several different packages available. If you get just internet, its $80 / month. No bandwidth caps. If you add HD TV (SEC network is included in the basic package, and their contracts are already signed), it's an additional $60 / month, plus $10/ mo for each additional room drop. TV package is pretty similar to DirecTV. You can also add the premiums and additional sports packages, as well as PPV and online viewing (ipad or PC). You can port your landline phone to them for an additional $20 / month. it's not VOiP. Faxes work, life alerts work, alarm systems work. So, if you only have one TV drop, you'd have the 1 Gbps internet, the basic HD TV package, including the SEC network, and a landline local number for $160 / month. If you had a couple more room drops, and added pretty much all the premiums, it would run around $215 a month for internet, HD TV, and phone, including taxes. Actually, not too bad when its bundled. A note on the HD TV. It's not compressed like satellite programming is. So the picture quality is much better than satellite. If you've ever watched HDTV on a roof antenna, you know what I'm talking about. Those signals are uncompressed, and its much crisper. OK, I've probably given myself away with this post. All ya gotta do is goggle a little bit. But oh well. We're proud of what we accomplished.