re: AT&T over Cox Internet?

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If that's what he's asking, aren't ATT DSL and ATT Fiber treated damned near like different companies? Even if DSL were better, which is very much debatable, I don't think having to deal with two separate installs 60 days apart would be worth the aggravation, utterly divorced from the individual services.

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Not really. The massive difference is just the maintainability between the two. at&t is flat out letting VDSL fail in some areas and can't fix it. Billing and all that are the same. Field techs are different due to copper vs fiber.

The biggest issue is fiber rollouts are not predictable. They could be started and done within 3 weeks or they can get paused in the middle for a few years.

This is why I mentioned getting 100Mbps speeds. If you can't get that with at&t DSL, then stay away. If you can, then you are very close to the node and your chances of quality service increase a lot.

Personally, I would really push Cox to fix any line issues and fix the connection before going to the DSL service but that is just me. My only recent experience with cable has been Xfinity and they provide awesome service where I am. I switch between Xfinity and At&t fiber all the time based on $ and both services have been great.