<div dir="ltr"><div>Interesting. I've rarely had trouble with them (aside from their equipment failing in bad weather), but obviously</div><div>that's not the case overall. Their coverage map claims they are servicing Brisbane. Perhaps that's a lie.</div><div><br></div><div>-th<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:02 PM maestro <<a href="mailto:maestro415@gmail.com">maestro415@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">WE had a very shitty experience with 'monkey brains' and would very strongly recommend against giving them<div>a penny and/or any validation.</div><div>Crap customer service, subcontracting to installers/maintenance who 'claim' to have 0 info when on-site [not their fault in our cases].</div><div>Subcontractors tell them things are needed and they totally ignore them.</div><div>People with accounts call them and no one answers the phone(s) and don't return calls.</div><div>Their customer service and wifi service was independently audited [non-public report] and received a complete fail in every aspect.</div><div>They say they're going to provide hardware to areas of properties then don't.</div><div>Their mission was [uncertain current locales] to kiss-ass to get into properties and get their hardware up on roofs then they turn rude,</div><div>non-responsive, unprofessional, and do a complete 180 with customer service.</div><div>Opt-out.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>'m......' >>></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>message ends.</div><div>__________________</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:15 AM Todd Hawley <<a href="mailto:celticdm@gmail.com" target="_blank">celticdm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>It appears from looking at their coverage map that MonkeyBrains offers service in Brisbane. <br></div><div>That might be an alternative if Sonic doesn't pan out.</div><div><br></div><div>-th<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 9:41 AM aaronco36 <<a href="mailto:aaronco36@sdf.org" target="_blank">aaronco36@sdf.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Quoting Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli at <a href="http://cal.berkeley.edu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">cal.berkeley.edu</a>> :<br>
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Sonic - from my research this past December, and at least for residential, <br>
if Sonic has fibre to the building, that's all that they'll offer for any <br>
new service. No static IPv4, and other limitations on it ... but it has <br>
bandwidth.<br>
Sonic still does DSL, and I'm guestimating they'll offer it for new <br>
service if there's still no fibre to the building. I didn't price it <br>
(there's fibre to my building), but I'm guessing the price is <br>
reasonable(ish?) for their DSL.<br>
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<br>
<br>
And directly from the 'Check Availability' quote from Sonic's Residential <br>
page <a href="https://www.sonic.com/residential" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.sonic.com/residential</a> using a pair of residential <br>
addresses in SF's Sunset District :<br>
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One Service Available<br>
<br>
RECOMMENDED<br>
Internet + Home Phone<br>
Your internet speed: 20 Mbps<br>
<br>
'Your price'$40/MO<br>
Save $10 for 12 months<br>
<br>
Regular price: $50/mo<br>
Get $10 off Sonic service for first 12 mos<br>
<br>
Internet delivered over AT&T's network using one Fiber-to-the-Node data <br>
line, plus one home phone line.<br>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`<br>
<br>
<br>
Would the 'Check Availability' probes revealing that Sonic could deliver <br>
Internet "over AT&T's network" mean that "there's still no fibre to the <br>
building" (as Michael P wrote above) for these particular Sunset District <br>
customers, that Sonic would have to rely upon AT&T's pre-existing <br>
"Fiber-to-the-Node" data line, and that therefore the quoted 20 Mbps <br>
Internet speed is that of lower-end DSL speeds, yes?<br>
<br>
Please feel free to elaborate upon this :-)<br>
<br>
<br>
((No, I did _not_ (yet) scope out Sonic's Internet service provisions in <br>
Brisbane or Daly City! ))<br>
<br>
-A<br>
<br>
<a href="mailto:aaronco36@sdf.org" target="_blank">aaronco36@sdf.org</a><br>
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