My new Internet service got installed yesterday. Multiple companies have been laying fiber in neighborhoods all over town this year. Pavlov Media was the first to get to ours. I had been thinking about this for a while. My contract with Cox doesn't run out until mid-November. I was in no rush, but I wanted to have plenty of overlap so I could be comfortable cutting off Cox. The recent 2 day outage pushed me over the edge.
I have business service with Cox, so it is much pricier, but necessary to have no blocked ports. Pavlov doesn't block ports. I just had to compensate for the lack of a static IP by setting up DDClient to update my DNS records as needed. My service with Cox is 100M/10M. With Pavlov it is 1G/1G. At least it is in theory. It turns out my router can't handle that, so I'm getting more like 150M/100M (still a big improvement!). I plugged a laptop in directly and got around 350M/625M, which was disappointing. I hope this just means they are playing catch-up with their bandwidth as they have been signing up people right and left, judging from the number of houses I see in my neighborhood with fiber running the yard awaiting burial.
I went to disable some features on my router to speed it up and discovered that they were already disabled. That's when I remembered that, when I went from 50M to 100M, I had problems taking advantage of the improvement and had to disable some things. So, I should have seen this coming. I'll be ordering a replacement this weekend. I'm currently using
one of these. My top contender at the moment is
one of these or maybe
these. I've been using RouterOS devices for a long time and will probably stick with it.
