Spectrum features, clubhouse news

[POOKS]

Hi Mike,

Do you mean that the office believes that Frontier is superior to Spectrum?

[mschwartz]

Yes. For business purposes.

The main benefits of spectrum are live TV and dodgers games on tv.

With frontier, you would need to buy live tv from YouTube or sling or something similar. If you care about live TV…

[komcgov]

Personally speaking, I'll take Frontier over Spectrum any day. Not sure I understand all the different configurations and MB etc etc but I stayed with Frontier and am very happy. I know it is costing me a lot more than Spectrum but that's my choice.

[mschwartz]

The advantage of Frontier is that it is fiber optic. Spectrum is coax cable.

Coax goes fast download speeds and relatively poor upload speeds. Fiber optic is the same fast speed in both directions.

Download is when you fetch mail or load a web page in your browser.

Upload is when you send email or video feed from your door bell or other cameras, zoom, upload photos you took to the cloud, sending of attachments to email or text messages.

[komcgov]

More info than I need...just know I am happy with FIOS and I thought it was ridiculous that after all the digging and installation Verizon did with FIOS, we opted for Spectrum.

[POOKS]

I agree with you that fiber optic is much better and I too was disappointed that the HOA made the choice apparently for only the homeowners to go with Spectrum while the Office kept Frontier. I have heard that the speed of Spectrum Cable lowers with each person signing onto to it.

[mschwartz]

If you read the fine print, Spectrum offers speeds up to whatever speeds you are paying for.

Spectrum and Frontier bid against each other for the bulk contract. Spectrum paid like $2m while frontier offered $1.8m. This is a kickback, but typical of service providers contracts. The numbers are roughly accurate.

The big thing about Spectrum is that they have the Dodgers games on their cable TV. I can appreciate that in SoCal we have a lot of residents who are Dodgers fans.

Also, Frontier went through bankruptcy and the board used that as an excuse to change the bulk contract.

[komcgov]

I stayed with Frontier because of the TV offerings.

[komcgov]

@mschwartz...another poor board decision IMO.

[mschwartz]

@komcgov said in Spectrum features, clubhouse news:

@mschwartz...another poor board decision IMO.

I was against it at the time. I was looking at Nextdoor posts a few days ago that I made back then.

I sent an email to the guy running the committee making the decision, and was ignored.

Count me as another domain expert whose opinion is ignored.

[POOKS]

So Far we are three for three...Poor HOA decisions for: Spectrum: Design for Boulevards and now Solar. I have found that each place that I have had homes has had a different what I call a "Culture".

[cc]

@mschwartz Hi, Mike.... I have the MySpectrum app, but don't see anything about a "wifi profile". Can you tell me how a obtain that?
Thanks,
Cherryl

[mschwartz]

@cc said in Spectrum features, clubhouse news:

@mschwartz Hi, Mike.... I have the MySpectrum app, but don't see anything about a "wifi profile". Can you tell me how a obtain that?
Thanks,
Cherryl

Ignore the bit about free trial. Start with the “To automatically connect…” part.

https://www.spectrum.com/internet/wifi-access-points#:~:text=To automatically connect and get,prompts to complete the installation.